On Wed, 17 May 2023 22:34:32 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/foreign/Linker.java line 219:
>>
>>> 217: * <ol>
>>> 218: * <li>the alignment constraint of {@code G} is set to its <a
>>> href="MemoryLayout.html#layout-align">natural alignment</a>;</li>
>>> 219: * <li>the size of {@code G} is a multiple of its alignment
>>> constraint;</li>
>>
>> Do you think this is a constraint that will hold across all linker
>> implementations?
>
> All "native linkers" as the text says. Other linkers (e.g. not for C) might
> obey other rules. These rules are basically constraining struct layouts to
> what can come out of a native compiler in the absence of pragma pack
> directives.
Ah, i see now, i missed the relevance of that term, introduced earlier in
non-modified text.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14037#discussion_r1197130720
