Integrated: 8371777: Clean up preferred address of G1's archive region

[Paul Hübner]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:49:05 GMT, Paul Hübner <phubner at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> There exists infrastructure in G1 to map the archived region at a certain address, `preferred_addr`. This was however never implemented and abandoned in favour of JEP 516. This is a small cleanup that removes the unused parameter.
> 
> Note: the `requested_start` address is still necessary to compute pointer deltas and to perform patching if necessary. If folks feel like `requested` is a misleading name I'm happy to address that as part of a separate RFE.
> 
> Testing: tiers 1-5 Linux (x64, AArch64), macOS (x64, AArch64), Windows x64.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 2a465cb0
Author:    Paul Hübner <phubner at openjdk.org>
Committer: Joel Sikström <jsikstro at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/2a465cb0eba6ffe397cf3ad8c1def06bf7a1e392
Stats:     6 lines in 3 files changed: 0 ins; 2 del; 4 mod

8371777: Clean up preferred address of G1's archive region

Reviewed-by: stefank, jsikstro

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29317