[code-reflection] RFR: Represents literals of type byte/short as permitted in the Java language [v2]

[Mourad Abbay]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:21:19 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Mourad Abbay has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains two additional commits since the last revision:
>> 
>>  - Merge branch 'code-reflection' into fix-literal-type
>>  - Represents literals of type byte/short as permitted in the Java language.
>
> Changes look good - I left some comments to improve the code clarity. I think this PR also needs a test of the model that comes out of javac.

@mcimadamore I only added tests that cover the change we did to the compiler code. Cases like `byte/short x = some_literal` are already covered in `ConstantsTest`.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/babylon/pull/351#issuecomment-2719323001