RFR: 7903081: Update asmtools and remove jcov traces

Mon May 5 12:40:18 UTC 2025

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:49:43 GMT, Christian Stein <cstein at openjdk.org> wrote:

> _work in progress..._
> 
> Blocked by AsmTools requiring JDK 17 (or above) to be built: https://github.com/openjdk/asmtools/blob/7ea57726a181b819c4b6331b19160c4fce238b11/build/build.properties#L30-L31

Hello Christian, the upgrade looks reasonable to me. Now that we enforce Java 17 for building jtreg, I think we should also update the `doc/building.md` which currently states:

> It must be a recent build of JDK 11 or later.

make/build-support/asmtools/version-numbers line 26:

> 24: #
> 25: 
> 26: DEFAULT_ASMTOOLS_SRC_TAG=8.1

The copyright year on this file will need an update.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jtreg/pull/228#issuecomment-2850858951
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jtreg/pull/228#discussion_r2073361455