RFR: 8369573: Add missing compile commands help documentation for the signature part of method patterns

[Roberto Castañeda Lozano]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:17:05 GMT, Daniel Lundén <dlunden at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > 2. in the context of Java, a "signature" tends to refer to the parameter types only, excluding return type
> 
> Additionally, the method signature also includes the method name itself (unlike the method descriptor). From the Java 25 spec:
> 
> > 8.4.2 Method Signature
> > Two methods or constructors, M and N, have the same signature if they have the
> > same **name**, the same type parameters (if any) (§8.4.4), and, after adapting the
> > formal parameter types of N to the type parameters of M, the same formal parameter
> > types.

This also raises the question about the usefulness of matching method return types, but that's out of the scope of this RFE.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27818#issuecomment-3409756281