[lworld] RFR: 8315412 [lworld] Preparing code for lw5 [v2]

[Frederic Parain]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:46:01 GMT, Frederic Parain <fparain at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Quite a big patch, but it is mostly made of renaming and mechanical replacement without really changing the logic of the code.
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>> The patch includes changes to make the VM code less dependent on Q-descriptors by encoding the presence of null-free inline types fields in FieldInfo.
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>> The patch also includes a lot of renaming, in an effort to have uniformed naming of flat fields and flat arrays across the VM. The renaming has not been applied to the heap dumper and C2. They will be addressed in follow up patches.
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>> Tested with Mach5, tiers 1 to 3.
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>> Thank you
>> 
>> Fred
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> Frederic Parain has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Addresing Lois' comments

Lois, Tobias,
thank you for your reviews, comments and indentations have been fixed.

Fred

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/922#issuecomment-1706702087