[lworld] Integrated: 8315412 [lworld] Preparing code for lw5

[Frederic Parain]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:52:42 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Tested with Mach5, tiers 1 to 3.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Fred

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 202c5cc2
Author:    Frederic Parain <fparain at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/commit/202c5cc2e0f5f0a4464c71ea02e42467974708a8
Stats:     718 lines in 79 files changed: 105 ins; 94 del; 519 mod

8315412: [lworld] Preparing code for lw5

Reviewed-by: lfoltan, thartmann

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/922