RFR: 8317132: Prepare HotSpot for permissive-

[Julian Waters]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 13:07:43 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hmm, creating an entire method exclusively for this seems a bit excessive, what if I just surrounded the else block with a scope and kept everything else the same? The issue is goto jumping across the locals of this method after all, which a scope coould solve
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> That seems fine

Daniel suggested splitting initialization into declaration and assignment instead, which seems like a better solution

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15955#discussion_r1342421361