Review Request: JDK-8207146: Rename jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe::xxxObject to xxxReference

[Mandy Chung]

David, thanks for the review.

Mandy

On 10/16/18 8:33 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Mandy,
>
> I took a look through all of this and it seems okay - though it was a 
> little surprising how far the name change needed to spread.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> On 17/10/2018 2:08 AM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk12/webrevs/8207146/webrev.00/
>>
>> Unsafe::getObject returns a reference to an object. Similarly
>> Unsafe::putObject sets a reference in the given base+offset.
>> This patch proposes to rename Unsafe xxxObject to xxxReference
>> that will make the xxxReference API very clear that these
>> are getters/setters for a reference (instance of object class)
>> and ready for adding xxxValue in the futurefor values.
>> Note that this renaming only applies to jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe
>> but not sun.misc.Unsafe.  So no impact to existing libraries
>> that depends on sun.misc.Unsafe in jdk.unsupported module.
>>
>> I ran jdk_core, core_tools, langtools and nashorn tier1-3,
>> hotspot_runtime, hotspot_compiler test groups.
>>
>> thanks
>> Mandy