+1
> On Jan 20, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Hannes Wallnoefer <hannes.wallnoe...@oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
> Please review backport to 8u-dev of JDK-8144020: Remove long as an internal
> numeric type:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8144020/webrev-8u/
>
> There was some manual merging necessary in the following files:
>
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/codegen/LocalVariableTypesCalculator.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/codegen/SpillObjectCreator.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/ir/debug/NashornTextifier.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/objects/NativeArray.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/parser/Lexer.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/runtime/JSType.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/runtime/OptimisticReturnFilters.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/runtime/ScriptObject.java
> src/jdk/nashorn/internal/runtime/arrays/LongArrayData.java
>
> I chose to omit the changes to ir/debug/NashornTextifier.java and
> runtime/linker/NashornCallSiteDescriptor.java (cleaning up bytecode printing)
> as it is not an essential part of this patch and would have required more
> changes in NashornTextifier.java.
>
> Thanks
> Hannes