RFR: 8293691: converting a defined BasicType value to a string should not crash the VM

[Johan Sjölen]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:12:25 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hm, yeah. This looks like this to create symmetry with the declaration of `type2name_tab`:
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>> extern const char* type2name_tab[T_CONFLICT+1];     // Map a BasicType to a char*
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>> But the symmetry is lost here as they're in 2 different files now. I'd like a RFE where `type2name_tab` is no longer external which will make the symmetry apparent again. Can we ignore this nit in anticipation of that change?
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> I honestly don't care about this nit either way :) You decide.

Alright, I'll let it be then :).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10447