RFR: 8354897: Support Soft/Weak Reference in AOT cache [v7]

[Zhengyu Gu]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:57:51 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/hotspot/share/cds/aotReferenceObjSupport.cpp line 122:
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>>> 120:   ik->initialize(CHECK);
>>> 121: 
>>> 122:   TempNewSymbol field_name = SymbolTable::new_symbol("N""ULL");
>> 
>> Why "N""ULL", not "NULL"?
>
> That's because a stand-lone word "NULL" will cause hotspot/jtreg/sources/TestNoNULL.java to fail. I have renamed the internal field to NULL_QUEUE to avoid the failure, per recommendation of @kimbarrett

Thank you for the explanation!

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24757#discussion_r2067704580