RFR: 8271569: Clean up the use of CDS constants and field offsets [v3]

[David Holmes]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 23:12:19 GMT, Yumin Qi <minqi at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Changed cdsOffsets.cpp to cdsConstants.cpp, now the offsets and constants are initialized static and searched separately.
>> The offsets array could not use 'constexpr' since g++ on MacOs and VSC++ on Windows complained reinterpret_cast in 'offset_of' should not be used in constexpr initialization. Changed some field access for forming global list first.
>> 
>> Note with 'git mv' to rename cdsoffset.cpp to cdsConstants.cpp, same for cdsoffsets.hpp to cdsConstants.hpp, due to the contents changed more than 50% so git will not think cdsConstants.cpp is renamed from cdsoffsets.cpp. Instead, it is regarded as a new file.
>> 
>> Tests: ter1-4
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Yumin
>
> Yumin Qi has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Rollled back _base_region_crc to private, changed CDSConst's value from type int to size_t

src/hotspot/share/cds/cdsConstants.hpp line 37:

> 35:  public:
> 36:   static CDSConst offsets[];
> 37:   static CDSConst constants[];

Why are these public?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5450