RFR: JDK-8160353: narrowing conversion error is occurred with GCC 6

[Kim Barrett]

> On Jul 2, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Yasumasa Suenaga <yasuenag at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kim,
> 
>> So the proposed casts seem to me to be just papering over a deeper
>> problem. I suggest separating this into a different CR for later
>> cleanup, since it's not an immediate problem once the build problem is
>> fixed.
> 
> I removed change for type.hpp in new webrev:
> 
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ysuenaga/JDK-8160353/webrev.01/

This looks good.

I can sponsor, once there’s a second review.

> If JDK-8156980 is resolved, this error will be gone.
> IMHO, it should be fixed.

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8160748