RFR: 8268164: Adopt cast notation for WorkerThread conversions [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 12:51:01 GMT, Stefan Karlsson <stefank at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Albert Mingkun Yang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   review
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> src/hotspot/share/runtime/nonJavaThread.hpp line 111:
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>> 109: 
>> 110:   static WorkerThread* cast(Thread* t) {
>> 111:     assert(t->is_Worker_thread(), "incorrect cast to const WorkerThread");
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> It should probably not say *const* here.

`as_Worker_thread()` used const so I wonder whether the new cast function should too?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4334