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

[Alan Bateman]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:30:14 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.

This looks okay but would be good to confirm what builds + testing were done. Also can you update the Oracle copyright on these files as it's the first change to them in 2026.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29502#issuecomment-3823506738