RFR: 8349009: JVM fails to start when AOTClassLinking is used with unverifiable old classes [v4]

[Ioi Lam]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:17:49 GMT, John R Rose <jrose at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Exclude test cases that assume (verifiable) old classes are always archived; but they are now not archived when -XX:+AOTClassLinking is enabled
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> A few additional jtreg tests for CDS (14) required exclusion. These tests are incompatible with the new AOT mode.  They have to do with custom class loaders and/or old-version classfiles, and they demand behavior which conflicts with AOT's advertised limitations.
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> There are now 63 excludes out of a total of about 308 CDS tests, leaving 245 jtreg tests that apply to both CDS and AOT.
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> The coverage is still reasonable, after removing the additional inappropriate tests.
> 
> Approved.

Thanks @rose00 and @vnkozlov for the review

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23361#issuecomment-2624954267