On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 17:13:06 GMT, Gerard Ziemski <gziem...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review this cleanup, where we rename `MEMFLAGS` to `MemType`. > > `MEMFLAGS` implies that we can use more than one at the same time, but those > are exclusive values, so `MemType` is much more suitable name. > > There is a bunch of other related cleanup that we can do, but I will leave > for follow up issues such as [NMT: rename NMTUtil::flag to > NMTUtil::type](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8337836) Assuming for a second that we agree on the name of new type ( for now `MemTag`). Are we sure we want to combine that rename `MEMFLAGS` --> `MemTag` with changing the names of parameters and variables around this change at the same time? This is exactly what I initially did, but after I took a 2nd look I got worried about how big it looked. Just for a reference these are my changes I am talking about, which I abandoned: https://openjdk.github.io/cr/?repo=jdk&pr=20472&range=00 ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20497#issuecomment-2321955298