RFR: 8276563: Undefined Behaviour in class Assembler

[Andrew Haley]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2021 17:49:37 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

> In other words: in the current scheme we pass around an integer disguised as a pointer, and then have to cast it to an integer to use it. That seems silly. Let's just pass around the integer instead, wrapped in a value-object, which the compiler should treat the same as if it were just the integer.

That's worth exploring, but I'm reluctant to start overloading `->`. I'll have a look.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6280