[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8071507: (ref) Clear phantom reference as soft and weak references do [v2]

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 21:55:25 GMT, Poonam Bajaj <poonam at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Backport of 8071507 and 8143847 from jdk8u-ri to jdk8u-dev.
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>>     8071507: (ref) Clear phantom reference as soft and weak references do
>>     8143847: Remove REF_CLEANER reference category
>> 
>> With these changes, phantom references are automatically cleared by the garbage collector like soft and weak references.
>> 
>> The changes are clean backport apart from a little manual adjustment for the hunk at line 246 in referenceProcessor.cpp.
>
> Poonam Bajaj has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Updated copyright years

Marked as reviewed by andrew (Reviewer).

I've set `jdk8u-fix-yes` on the bug so this can be integrated now. Thanks again for the contribution.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/94