Moving the _vtable_len into Klass

[John Rose]

On Dec 17, 2015, at 6:29 AM, Mikael Gerdin <mikael.gerdin at oracle.com> wrote:
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> My current plan is to first modify the vtable_length_offset accessor to return a byte offset (which is what it's translated to by all callers).
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> Then I'll tackle moving the _vtable_len field to Klass.
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> Finally I'll try to consolidate the vtable related methods to Klass, where they belong.
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> The vtable_start_offset is a slightly more difficult beast since it's more often used in wordSize scaled calculations, my current idea is to leave it alone for now.
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> Does that sound like a good plan?

Sure, that's fine.  It might be slightly better if you could make vtable_start_offset also be unscaled, but (as I said) that's more of a long-term goal, to move towards unscaled offset calculations.

— John