RFR: 8333377: Migrate Generic Signature parsing to ClassFile API

[Chen Liang]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:41:35 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Replace the legacy sun reflect generics tree API with the classfile signature model API. This allows us to maintain just one set of API for future signature changes like null restricted types. This should be less invasive than #19281.

I think I will have a separate patch to add a test case for 8351103 instead of adding a test for that bug in this patch.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29510#issuecomment-3831165770