RFR: 8367366: Do not support -XX:+AOTClassLinking for dynamic CDS archive

Ashutosh Mehra asmehra at openjdk.org
Fri Sep 12 15:16:10 UTC 2025


On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 03:31:02 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Support of `-XX:+AOTClassLinking` for  dynamic CDS archive is not an documented feature of [JEP 483](https://openjdk.org/jeps/483). It has very small performance benefit and complicates the development of future AOT optimizations.
> 
> After this PR, `-XX:+AOTClassLinking` will have no effect when creating a dynamic CDS archive.

This looks good. Just wondering if we should report any message if `-XX:+AOTClassLinking` is specified when creating a dynamic archive? I think this patch silently ignores it.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27242#issuecomment-3285678073


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