RFR: 8310849: Pattern matching for instanceof and arrayType cleanup in j.l.invoke and j.l.reflect [v4]

[Chen Liang]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:02:28 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch touches java.lang.reflect and java.lang.invoke packages. It replaces instanceof + cast with pattern matching and updates  Array.newInstance().getClass() patterns with arrayType() for obtaining array types of a class.
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> Chen Liang has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Wrap line that is too long
>  - Use single space for single-line if statements
>    
>    Co-authored-by: Andrey Turbanov <turbanoff at gmail.com>

Tests pass, integrating. Thank you for your reviews!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14642#issuecomment-1608795933