RFR (S): 8191681: Unsafe accesses should use field_offset_to_byte_offset()

[Andrew Haley]

On 24/11/17 14:45, Erik Österlund wrote:
> 
> Before the Access API, there was a no-op conversion function in 
> unsafe.cpp for getting the byte offset of a field offset from unsafe as 
> a jlong. Now, the field offsets *are* byte offsets, so the conversion 
> did not do anything. But I guess it could be useful nevertheless for 
> abstraction purposes.

This came up when I was working on Unsafe, and I think it's really a
bit of nonsense.  These days the byte offsets might even be absolute
addresses, and the speculation that one day we might change our minds
is rather pointless.  I could find the discussion from that thread if
you're interested.

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