RFR: 8352437: Support --add-exports with -XX:+AOTClassLinking

[Ioi Lam]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:47:29 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Is the motivation tests or code that is making use of JDK internals? No objection to the change of course, I'm curious why we are doing this.

The motivation is for both testing (e.g., expose the ` jdk.internal.test.cds.WhiteBox` package proposed by [JDK-8352528](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8352528)), as well as supporting existing applications that use `--add-exports` to access JDK internals.

While  the use of `--add-exports` by applications is discouraged, I think the AOT cache should provide the same level of support as when the AOT cache is not used, since the effort for extending this support is quite small.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24124#issuecomment-2748582875