RFR: 8298241: Replace C-style casts with JavaThread::cast [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:21:35 GMT, Doug Simon <dnsimon at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> David Holmes has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>> 
>>   Fixed commented examle.
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> Is it possible to add a test based on grep to prevent re-introduction of the unwanted C-style casts?

Sorry @dougxc only found your comment by accident. AFAIK we don't have any such style of tests that would try to check the source code for an anti-pattern. Our test suites don't have access to the src tree when they run.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11682