[code-reflection] RFR: Represents literals of type byte/short as permitted in the Java language [v4]

[Paul Sandoz]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:08:37 GMT, Mourad Abbay <mabbay at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Before this PR, we had literals of type byte/short in the code model, but that's not permitted by the Java language. In Java, a literals of type byte/short is a literal of type int + conversion to the type byte/short.
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> Mourad Abbay has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Add tests to make sure literals of type byte/short are created the way Java language permit.

Looks good.
@grfrost this might impact C99 gen (see example tests, you could check if the variable's initial value is the result of a primitive conversion op and check if value to be converted is the result of a constant op)

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Marked as reviewed by psandoz (Lead).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/babylon/pull/351#pullrequestreview-2711663439