RFR: 8256516: Simplify clearing References [v2]

Thu Nov 19 15:46:06 UTC 2020

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 10:08:30 GMT, Roman Kennke <rkennke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Kim Barrett has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains two additional commits since the last revision:
>> 
>>  - Merge branch 'master' into simplify
>>  - replace set_referent with clear_referent
>
> Looks good to me! Thanks!

Thanks for reviews @rkennke, @shipilev, @pliden, @mlchung

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1286