RFR: 8199264: Remove universe.inline.hpp to simplify include dependencies

[harold seigel]

Hi Stefan,

This looks good.  Thanks for doing it.

Harold

On 3/7/2018 4:59 PM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please review this patch to remove universe.inline.hpp.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8199264/webrev.01/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8199264
>
> The main motivation for this patch is to lower the number of 
> .inline.hpp files included from .hpp files. My initial though was to 
> just move the two trivial functions from the universe.inline.hpp into 
> universe.hpp, and get rid of universe.inline.hpp. However, 
> field_type_should_be_aligned evaluates to true at the single location 
> it is used, and element_type_should_be_aligned is only used in 
> arrayOop.hpp, so it was moved there instead.
>
> There are a number of places that used to include universe.inline.hpp 
> that now include universe.hpp. I left them all by purpose, to minimize 
> the potential for build breakages. Even removing the universe.hpp 
> include in arrayOop.hpp breaks the build, so I'd like to defer that 
> cleaning to another patch.
>
> Thanks,
> StefanK