[code-reflection] RFR: Support storing the code that builds the code model [v18]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:00:05 GMT, Mourad Abbay <mabbay at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In this PR we allow the user to decide how to store the code model. The first option is `TEXT`, if this is selected, we store the textual representation of the code model. The second option is `CODE_BUILDR`, if this is selected, we store the code that builds the code model. All work done here is around the second option, because the first option is already supported.
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> 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 20 additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'code-reflection' into code-model-storage-option
>  - Load OpFactory and TypeElementFactory before invocation of opMethod only if the opMethod has there params.
>  - Fix the remaining compiler tests failures
>  - Fix some of the test failures (3 remains)
>  - Fix the remaining test failures of SwitchExpressionTest2
>  - Fix almost all test failures of SwitchExpressionTest2 (one remaining)
>  - Pass arrayType instead of eleType in OpBuilder.buildArray
>  - Ensure that block params are inserted in the correct order
>  - Add missing imports
>  - Merge branch 'code-reflection' into code-model-storage-option
>  - ... and 10 more: https://git.openjdk.org/babylon/compare/71c99f4b...966005ce

I've verified that all tests pass, except the two test which fail with a compiler crash because of #351.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/babylon/pull/305#issuecomment-2721231441