RFR: 8243287: Removal of Unsafe::defineAnonymousClass [v5]

[Harold Seigel]

On Thu, 13 May 2021 07:19:03 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Harold Seigel has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   fix Weak hidden comment
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> src/hotspot/share/oops/constantPool.hpp line 493:
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>> 491:   // object into a CONSTANT_String entry of an unsafe anonymous class.
>> 492:   // Methods internally created for method handles may also
>> 493:   // use pseudo-strings to link themselves to related metaobjects.
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> Is this comment wrong? Are psuedo-strings not used by anything now?

Thanks for looking at this.  I discussed pseudo strings with Coleen and we didn't find any use of them besides unsafe.DefineAnonymousClass.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3974