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

[Stefan Karlsson]

Thanks, Coleen!

StefanK

On 2018-03-07 23:21, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
>
> This looks good!  Thank you for doing this.
> Coleen
>
> On 3/7/18 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
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