RFR: 8341587: [premain] Support Soft/Weak Reference in AOT cache [v5]

[Ioi Lam]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:44:27 GMT, Mat Carter <macarte at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Add support to the AOT cache for References (soft, weak and phantom)
>> Remove the workarounds that were added because References weren't supported
>> 
>> Confirmed from logs that References are stored in the cache correctly
>> 
>> All demos run successfully on osx
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> Mat Carter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   remove a whitespace

I did some investigation and created #45 to add some test cases for cached WeakReferences.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/leyden/pull/41#issuecomment-2692572900