RFR: JDK-6361826: (reflect) provide method for mapping strings to class object for primitive types

[Chen Liang]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:57:54 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Going over some old issues and found this RFE, posting without any tests or a CSR first to get some feedback on the overall API.

`ClassDesc.of()` already takes a binary name; another JVM programming language may declare a class with `int` binary name in the unnamed package, so we need a new API in `ClassDesc` for this purpose.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14743#issuecomment-1615294239