RFR: 8292575: riscv: Represent Registers as values [v3]

Tue Aug 30 01:48:16 UTC 2022

On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 01:07:59 GMT, Feilong Jiang <fjiang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Follow up [JDK-8292153](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8292153) and [JDK-8292203](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8292203), migrate away from pointer-based representation of Register values.
>> 
>> It improves compile-time checking by forbidding implicit conversions between integrals and pointers.
>> 
>> Testing:
>> - hotspot/jdk tier1 on unmatched board
>> - hotspot/jdk tier1 on qemu
>
> Feilong Jiang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   remove duplicate code

Looks good.

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Marked as reviewed by yzhu (Author).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9936