RFR: 8286944: Loom: Common ContinuationEntry cookie handling

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Wed, 18 May 2022 11:11:23 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> I can bring this commit as mainline PR: [openjdk/loom at e470f96](https://github.com/openjdk/loom/commit/e470f96787332f6cc353a57a39e17841c68714fd)
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>> That commit is a bit of out date as there are new/changed locations so best to just take the latest from the fibers branch of the loom repo.
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>> > I can bring this commit as mainline PR: [openjdk/loom at e470f96](https://github.com/openjdk/loom/commit/e470f96787332f6cc353a57a39e17841c68714fd)
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>> That commit is a bit of out date as there are new/changed locations so best to just take the latest from the fibers branch of the loom repo.
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> See #8765. I'll retest this PR once test groups land.

We were thinking of renaming the ContinuationEntry class because it's not an entry but more of an anchor.  Your suggestions are welcome @shipilev since it appears that you're doing a lot of porting work.  We'll wait until things settle down though (maybe in JDK 20).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8762