RFR: 7903081: Update asmtools and remove jcov traces [v2]

Mon May 19 13:44:15 UTC 2025

On Mon, 5 May 2025 14:41:37 GMT, Christian Stein <cstein at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> _work in progress..._
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>> Blocked by AsmTools requiring JDK 17 (or above) to be built: https://github.com/openjdk/asmtools/blob/7ea57726a181b819c4b6331b19160c4fce238b11/build/build.properties#L30-L31
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> Christian Stein has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Specify JDK 17 is required to build jtreg
>  - Update copyright year

The `jtreg` tool itself requires Java 11 since 7.0; agents can be still on 8, same as today.
 Soon, tests using `asmtools` 8.x will require Java 17 - due to https://github.com/openjdk/asmtools/blob/279512c2c649f59a0c15f1ae2caa31b9ed695ea5/build/build.properties#L30-L31

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jtreg/pull/228#issuecomment-2891085482