RFR: 8317269: Store old classes in linked state in AOT cache [v9]

[Ioi Lam]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:00:57 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   updated comments
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> This is good. Thanks for all the comments and explanations. The tests look good, particularly the descriptive names of the test classes.

Thanks @coleenp @matias9927 for the review

I merged the repos locally and reran tiers 1-4, build tier 5 and AOT-JCK tests.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26754#issuecomment-3276226574