RFR (T) 8245428: Remove unused oopFactory functions

[coleen.phillimore at oracle.com]

On 5/20/20 2:18 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 20/05/2020 1:17 pm, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
>> I happened to notice that functions are unused.  Tier1 tested.
>
> Looks good.
>
> FYI the new_byteArray_handle API became unused after JDK-8220623 (it 
> was used by JVMCI)
>
> The new_tenured_charArray has never been used, even when introduced by 
> permgen removal. :)

Hm yeah it must have had some temporary use, and never got cleaned up.  
Strings used to be in permgen but the call was new_permanent_charArray.

Thanks for the archeology and review!
Coleen
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>> open webrev at 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/2020/8245428.01/webrev
>> bug link https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8245428
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Coleen