RFR: javac support for Parametric VM, first stab [v3]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:28:48 GMT, Rémi Forax <github.com+828220+forax at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Vicente Romero has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   associate an id to the Parameter CP
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> src/jdk.compiler/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/jvm/PoolConstant.java line 234:
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>> 232:         final int kind;
>> 233: 
>> 234:         Parameter(int kind) {
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> Why do you create a Parameter without an id ?

That is during class reading - where we don't care about the "id" anymore. The "id" is just a "fiction" when writing, to help us generating multiple CP holes (possibly with the same kind).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/valhalla/pull/364