[9] RFR(L): 8037816 : Fix for 8036122 breaks build with Xcode5/clang

[David Chase]

On 2014-04-30, at 5:09 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>> How do you like it otherwise?  I'm itching to get reviews and get this thing out of my hair.
> 
> I appreciate what you are doing but I dislike the details - in particular print_raw and, even worse, cr().
> 
> One thing we do need from this is some clear documentation somewhere on what format specific macros to use for which types.

You do understand that those are both existing public methods, and I did not add or innovate, right?
It's also completely nonintuitive to me that you would dislike cr more than print_raw.

Rather than document, we could make them not be public, if we really meant for them not to be called.
I prefer Vladimir's proposal to rename print_raw into puts.

One thing that is a little puzzling to me is why we have both INTX and INT64.
I see no purpose whatsoever for INTX; it appears to be a 64-bit integer type,
but we have a well-defined 64-bit integer type (INT64) and a not-well-defined
64-bit integer type (JLONG) that we own because it is Ours.  We also have a
pointer-sized integer type (INTPTR) and if this is actually a distinction,
an "I intend to print this integer as a pointer type" (PTR).

David