On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 21:44:37 GMT, Dean Long <dl...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> @DanHeidinga Great explanation, thank you! > > If Class had other fields smaller than `int`, would be consider making this > something like `char` to save space (allowing all the sub-word fields to be > compacted)? I thought of doing this since I made modifiers u2 in the Hotspot code just previously, but all the Java code refers to this as an int. And I didn't see other fields to compact it with. Maybe if access_flags are moved we could make them both char (not short since they're unsigned). It feels weird to not have unsigned short to my C++ eyes. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22652#discussion_r1944613105
