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Investigate JNI support from FFM API

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      It might sometimes be desirable to use the Linker API to call JNI functions. Here are some areas which might use better interop:

      * Passing Java heap objects to JNI functions: this requires a function to take a Java object and turn it into a JNI handles, exposed as a native memory segment. Note: if the API to create a JNI handle takes an Arena, we can just provide one API to cover both global and weak handles.

      * Create and manipulate memory segments from JNI - e.g. with a JNI function similar to NewDirectByteBuffer/GetDirectBufferAddress/ GetDirectBufferCapacity.

      * Obtain the JNIEnv* from a given execution context, as that needs to be passed to the underlying JNI function.

      * Look up JNI functions, perhaps in a slightly higher-level form - e.g. add logic that given a Class + method name + signature gives the mangled name of the JNI function. This can be done by wrapping a SymbolLookup.

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            mcimadamore Maurizio Cimadamore
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