Adding flattening of strict final fields

[fparain]

Strict final instance fields are not subject to concurrent writes during a read access, so they can be flattened even if they are nullable and bigger than 64 bits. The NULLABLE_NON_ATOMIC_FLAT layout is added for this particular case.

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[merykitty]

This would forbid the class which contains the NULLABLE_NON_ATOMIC_FLAT from being flattened into a class which contains it. I think we should only do so if the holder of the flattened strict final field should not be flattened if it is not itself a strict final field:

• The holder is an identity class.
• The holder is a large value class without @LooselyConsistentValue.

This is equally valid to null-restricted field of non-@LooselyConsistentValue, too.

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