RFR: 8138732: Rename @HotSpotIntrinsicCandidate to @IntrinsicCandidate and move it to the jdk.internal.vm.annotation package

[Alan Bateman]

On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 09:44:09 GMT, Philippe Marschall <github.com+471021+marschall at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hello, newbie here
> 
> I picked JDK-8138732 to work on because it has a "starter" label and I believe I understand what to do.
> 
> - I tried to update the copyright year to 2020 in every file.
> - I decided to change `@since` from 9 to 16 since it is a new annotation name in a new package.
> - I tried to keep code changes to a minimum, eg not change to imports if fully qualified class names are used instead of
>   imports. In some cases I did minor reordering of imports to keep them sorted alphabetically.
> - All tier1 tests pass.
> - One jpackage/jlink tier2 test fails but I don't believe it is related.
> - Some tier3 Swing tests fail but I don't think they are related.

This one probably needs discussion on hotspot-dev to get agreement on the rename/move. It might need coordination with
Graal. If the change does go ahead then please check if java.base's module-info.java still needs to export jdk.internal
to jdk.jfr, I suspect that qualified export can be removed.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/45