RFR: 8345474: Translation for instanceof is not triggered when patterns are not used in the compilation unit [v2]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 10:59:00 GMT, Aggelos Biboudis <abimpoudis at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Our tests for #21539 covered the case of using `instanceof` as both a type comparison operator and a pattern matching operator in a single compilation unit. That concealed the fact that the translation is getting triggered only when the compilation unit `hasPatterns`. This was evident/reproducible also by experimentation using jshell. This PR addresses this issue.
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>   8345474: Translation for instanceof is not triggered when patterns are not used in the compilation unit

Good catch!

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Marked as reviewed by mcimadamore (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22541#pullrequestreview-2478135992