RFR: 8286401: Address possibly lossy conversions in Microbenchmarks [v2]

[Claes Redestad]

On Wed, 11 May 2022 15:21:51 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Claes Redestad has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Copyrights, consistently use the exact accumulator type
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> test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/vm/compiler/PointerBenchmarkFlat.java line 151:
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>> 149:         int sum = 0;
>> 150:         for (int i = 0 ; i < ELEM_SIZE ; i++) {
>> 151:             sum += (int)ptr_ptr.get(i).address().toRawLongValue();
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> Here and later: `toRawLongValue` returns `long`, right? So why don't we change the accumulator and return value to `long`, like we do in other tests?

Yeah, let's be consistent. I have verified that this does not affect the raw scores of these benchmarks.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8654