Withdrawn: 8358890: VM option -XX:AllowRedefinitionToAddDeleteMethods should be obsoleted then expired

[duke]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 01:12:11 GMT, Serguei Spitsyn <sspitsyn at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The VM option -XX:AllowRedefinitionToAddDeleteMethods was added in JDK 13 as a temporary backward compatibility flag under JDK-8192936 and was immediately marked as Deprecate. The fix is to obsolete this option in JDK 26 and expire in JDK 27.
> 
> TBD: Need to submit a related CSR.
> 
> There are two concerns which may require some negotiation with the Runtime (@coleenp @dcubed-ojdk @dholmes-ora) and SQE (@lmesnik) teams:
>  - Class redefinition/retransformation can impact lambda expressions which are supported with private methods
>  - Many tests depend on this VM option and are being removed. I'm not sure if it is okay to completely remove those e may want another way to handle this (e.g. problem-listing the impacted tests for now).
>  
> Testing:
>  - mach5 tiers 1-6 are good
>  - may need to run mach5 tiers > 6

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26232