RFR: 8368475: [lworld] Add preview classes to jimage at make time [v2]
David Beaumont
duke at openjdk.org
Tue Nov 4 17:38:50 UTC 2025
> Copies valuetype classes for each module into corresponding "/META-INF/preview/..." sub-directories to be pulled into jimage files and processed by the new preview mode handling code.
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> There might be a better way to do this in terms of Makefile semantics, but this seems to work well enough and doesn't prevent the value-class JAR files being generated for patching (which is still how everyone will get value classes until the rest of the work is plumbed in).
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> To enable the new preview mode work, set the "DISABLE_PREVIEW_PATCHING" system property to "true".
David Beaumont has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 12 commits:
- Merge branch 'jdk_8368467_reader/squashed' into jdk_8368475_makefile/squashed
- Rollup of makefile change and jlink fix (temp).
* likely test fix
* Copy value classes into preview directories for inclusion in jimage
- [[AUTOMATIC FORMATTING]]
- fixing tests after refactoring
- Fixing up after dependent PR changes
- feedback and remove unused code
- [[AUTOMATIC FORMATTING]]
- new tests for ImageLocation
- Restoring lost changes and updating some comments.
- add system property guard to preview mode
- ... and 2 more: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/compare/1cc77d40...747b24d0
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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1719/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=valhalla&pr=1719&range=01
Stats: 1543 lines in 28 files changed: 414 ins; 236 del; 893 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1719.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla.git pull/1719/head:pull/1719
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1719
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