RFR: 8354897: Support Soft/Weak Reference in AOT cache [v8]

[Ioi Lam]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:43:28 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Renamed the internal field ReferenceQueue.NULL to NULL_QUEUE to avoid failing hotspot/jtreg/sources/TestNoNULL.java
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ref/Reference.java line 313:
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>> 311:     }
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>> 313:     private static void runtimeSetup() {
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> I don't know if you are planning an annotation or something to mark these "runtimeSetup" methods but each one will minimally need a comment so that it's clear to anyone touching this code that it may be called by the VM when loading the AOT cache.

Yes, the plan is to use annotation to mark the `runtimeSetup` and `assemblySetup` methods.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24757#discussion_r2068947399