RFR: add use site null checks for fields [v8]

[Vicente Romero]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:26:36 GMT, Vicente Romero <vromero at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> generate null checks for field use sites depending on a compiler option, see also [1] which did a similar thing for method invocations
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>> [1] https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/pull/1910
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> Vicente Romero has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   minor change

thanks for the comments and suggestions!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1926#issuecomment-3773445089