MemoryLayout describes the structure of memory: how fields are ordered, their sizes, and their byte alignment. It is the FFM equivalent of a C struct declaration. With a layout you can compute field offsets automatically and create typed VarHandle accessors — no manual byte arithmetic needed.

ValueLayout — primitive element layouts
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