RFR(M) 8147461: Use byte offsets for vtable start and vtable length offsets

[Coleen Phillimore]

On 1/20/16 12:22 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2016, at 9:24 AM, Coleen Phillimore <coleen.phillimore at oracle.com> wrote:
>> [,,,]  Although I thought you were going to move _vtable_len to Klass ?
> That move comes later - see the plan discussed in [1] from Mikael’s original review request.

I see.  Although all the same places have to be changed from 
InstanceKlass:: to Klass::   That hopefully will be a boring code review.
Coleen

>
>>> On 2016-01-15 18:04, Mikael Gerdin wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> As per the previous discussion in mid-December[0] about moving the
>>>> _vtable_length field to class Klass, here's the first RFR and webrev,
>>>> according to my suggested plan[1]:
>>>>
>>>> […]
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2015-December/021224.html