RFR (L) 8037210: Get rid of char-based descriptions 'J' of basic types

[Christian Thalinger]

On Mar 14, 2014, at 4:28 AM, Vladimir Ivanov <vladimir.x.ivanov at oracle.com> wrote:

> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/8037210/webrev.00/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8037210
> 953 lines changed: 425 ins; 217 del; 311 mod
> 
> This is a massive cleanup of JSR292 code to replace char-based description of basic types by numeric constants.

Why are we not using an Enum instead of an "untyped" byte?

> 
> Contributed-by: john.r.rose at oracle.com
> 
> Testing: jdk/java/{lang/invoke,util}, vm.mlvm.testlist, nashorn, jruby
> Flags: -ea -esa -Xverify:all -D...COMPILE_THRESHOLD={0,30}
> 
> Best regards,
> Vladimir Ivanov
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