RFR: 8329150: Remove CDS support for LatestMethodCache [v4]

[Ioi Lam]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:14:11 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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>>   aligned and simplified comments
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> src/hotspot/share/memory/universe.cpp line 949:
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>> 947: Method* LatestMethodCache::get_method() {
>> 948:   if (klass() == nullptr) return nullptr;
>> 949:   InstanceKlass* ik = InstanceKlass::cast(klass());
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> Sorry for the bits and pieces.  Hopefully the last thing.  Can _klass be a InstanceKlass so we don't need this cast?

Thanks for the suggestions. This code is very old and really needs to be cleaned up. I also removed the unnecessary accessor functions.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18516#discussion_r1542271718