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

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20497#issuecomment-2321955298

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