RFR: 8377712: ConstantPool of WeakReferenceKey is not deterministic in CDS archive

[Ioi Lam]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:58:15 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Or a better fix would be removing the == path for all reference keys. There's no case where this hits because you are always creating a new strong key. Missing use of class constant means the equals method is completely unused.

As we discussed offline, I updated `ensureDeterministicAOTCache()` to call `WeakReferenceKey::equals()` instead.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29678#issuecomment-3901302276