RFR: 8080106: Refactor setup of parallel GC threads

[Kim Barrett]

On May 20, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Stefan Karlsson <stefan.karlsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-05-20 19:23, Kim Barrett wrote:
>> Also, I'd prefer use of UINTX_FORMAT, rather than casting
>> ParallelGCThreads.
> 
> Fine. It's extremely annoying that ParallelGCThreads is defined as a uintx (64 bits on 64-bit platforms) when we use it as an uint, which can be 32 bits wide.
> 
> $ grep -r "int) *ParallelGCThreads” src
> […]

That’s only about 20% of the occurrences of ParallelGCThreads.  (Can’t decide whether to use a smiley or a frowny here.)

The frequency of casts to signed int is also disturbing.

Perhaps globals.hpp and friends needs another round of enhancements, to support more types.  But probably not until after the value checking work is finished.

Feel free to ignore that suggestion if it’s too annoying; leaving the cast *would* make it easier to find as part of a later cleanup.