Review request for backport of JDK-8144020: Remove long as an internal numeric type

[Marcus Lagergren]

+1

> On 20 Jan 2016, at 14:10, Hannes Wallnoefer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Please review backport to 8u-dev of JDK-8144020: Remove long as an internal numeric type:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8144020/webrev-8u/
> 
> There was some manual merging necessary in the following files:
> 
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/codegen/LocalVariableTypesCalculator.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/codegen/SpillObjectCreator.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/ir/debug/NashornTextifier.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/objects/NativeArray.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/parser/Lexer.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/runtime/JSType.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/runtime/OptimisticReturnFilters.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/runtime/ScriptObject.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/runtime/arrays/LongArrayData.java
> 
> I chose to omit the changes to ir/debug/NashornTextifier.java and runtime/linker/NashornCallSiteDescriptor.java (cleaning up bytecode printing) as it is not an essential part of this patch and would have required more changes in NashornTextifier.java.
> 
> Thanks
> Hannes