RFR: 8286117: Remove unnecessary indirection and unused code in UL [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Mon, 9 May 2022 11:34:43 GMT, Johan Sjölén <duke at openjdk.java.net> wrote:

>> So really `_log` is just a simple alias that makes the other code easier to read IMO. So can't we keep `_log` and change the type?
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> How about `LogTagSet& _tagset`? There are more examples of `_tagset` members in UL, so it's consistent.

That seems a bit odd to me. Why can't we use the actual thing we will log to? The description of LogMessage is that it is a multi-part log entry that is accumulated until we flush it by writing to the actual log device.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8541