RFR: 8346986: Remove ASM from java.base

[David Holmes]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 06:52:10 GMT, Adam Sotona <asotona at openjdk.org> wrote:

> BTW: purpose of this PR is to seamlessly remove ASM from java.base and it is slightly turning into a massive synchronous refactoring of several hundreds of hotspot tests.

Moving the ASM library requires modifying every single test that uses it.

If you also change the package structure then you also need to modify the import statements in those tests, so that is more work. Personally I think continuing to use `jdk.internal` is just wrong (in principle) and I'm surprised it is being allowed. But I'm prepared to address that change as a follow up.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22946#issuecomment-2578774743