RFR: 8349580: Do not use address in MemTracker top level functions

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 19:11:09 GMT, Johan Sjölen <jsjolen at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Please consider this trivial patch. Note that this gives us consistency with `reserve_memory`.
> 
> ```c++
>   static inline void record_virtual_memory_reserve(void* addr, size_t size, /* ... */);
> 
> 
> Thanks.

We use `address` in most other parts of the JVM for "unspecified pointer". I would rather use address more consistently (also for APIs that today take "char*" for historical reasons).

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23497#issuecomment-2648163859