RFR: 8376703: Some coding in libjimage seems to be not called at all or not called from PRODUCT code [v2]

[Alan Bateman]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:41:33 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> libjimage has a few unused functions/methods; those are listed when logging elimination with  -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--print-gc-sections .
>> We could remove them (or with if are still needed for completeness  put them into  #if 0 ) to reduce lib size on Linux and AIX.
>> On Windows and macOS it seems the compiler/linker default settings are good enough to eliminate the code.
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> Matthias Baesken has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Adjust COPYRIGHT headers

@david-beaumont Can you verify that your upcoming changes to jimage do no depend on the functions that are removed here?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29502#issuecomment-3831436860