On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:38:42 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadam...@openjdk.org> 
wrote:

>> I've found a way to solve the remaining FFI problem on linux PPC64 Big 
>> Endian. Large structs (>8 Bytes) which are passed in registers or on stack 
>> require shifting the Bytes in the last slot if the size is not a multiple of 
>> 8. This PR adds the required functionality to the Java code.
>> 
>> Please review and provide feedback. There may be better ways to implement 
>> it. I just found one which works and makes the tests pass:
>> 
>> Test summary
>> ==============================
>>    TEST                                              TOTAL  PASS  FAIL ERROR 
>>   
>>    jtreg:test/jdk/java/foreign                          88    88     0     0 
>>   
>> 
>> 
>> Note: This PR should be considered as preparation work for AIX which also 
>> uses ABIv1.
>
> Overall these changes look good - as commented I'd like to learn a bit more 
> of the underlying ABI, to get a sense of whether adding a new binding is ok. 
> But overall it's great to see support for a big-endian ABI - apart from the 
> linker, I am pleased to see that you did not encounter too many issues in the 
> memory-side of the FFM API.

@mcimadamore: Thanks for your feedback! Jorn and I had resolved the other 
issues already when we have worked on the linux little endian part. It already 
contains some ABIv1 code. Note that we already have one big endian platform: 
s390. But that one doesn't pass structs >8 Bytes in registers.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15417#issuecomment-1692938709

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