RFR: 8341483: Clarify special case handling of Types.getArrayType

[Joe Darcy]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 04:33:39 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Are array types valid component types of array types? Not sure how it works in the language, but an array type is not a valid component type if it has 255 dimensions.

Yes; an array type is a reference type and a multi-dimensional array is modeled as an array-of-arrays. I don't know if this particular build would check for the dimensional limit, but it wouldn't be an unreasonable case to add to the test.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21346#issuecomment-2394207382