RFR: 8346986: Remove ASM from java.base [v3]

[Alan Bateman]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 15:39:20 GMT, Adam Sotona <asotona at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Adam Sotona has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   removed jdk.internal package prefix from asm
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> Thanks for the reviews. I'll update the copyright years and run again tier1 - 4 tests (just to be sure).
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> Jtreg seems to have no problems to use ASM as a declared library. This PR primary purpose is to remove the ASM from java.base.  Further improvements of hotspot tests using ASM can follow. However I would prefer to see further conversions of the hotspot tests to use Class-File API instead. Long-term goal is to remove ASM from JDK completely.
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> FYI: Regarding the merge of this PR I've been asked to wait until some downstream projects dependent on jdk.internal.objectweb.asm are fixed.

@asotona Can you add to your list to move src/java.base/share/legal/asm.md so that it's not included in the JDK build.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22946#issuecomment-2586328809