RFR: 8354556: Expand value-based class warnings to java.lang.ref API [v6]

[Archie Cobbs]

On Thu, 8 May 2025 18:55:34 GMT, Vicente Romero <vromero at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Vicente Romero has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 26 commits:
>> 
>>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8354556
>>  - addressing review comment
>>  - changes to test
>>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8354556
>>  - updating test
>>  - final adjustments
>>  - additional refactorings
>>  - removing unneeded changes
>>  - more refactorings
>>  - more refactorings and tests
>>  - ... and 16 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/900b3ff7...5d834ce0
>
> note to reviewers: I had an offline discussion with Dan, I will introduce some changes to the implementation

@vicente-romero-oracle, please see my [`identity-alias-synchronization`](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/compare/master...archiecobbs:jdk:identity-alias-synchronization?files) branch for an example of only having a single `LintCategory` with an alias. This branch passes `make test TEST="langtools_javac"`. This patch is based on an another PR that I already had lying around which had some related changes.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24746#issuecomment-2867784880