[lworld] RFR: 8364095: [lworld] AccessFlags location and release need futher work for Valhalla (IDENTITY and SUPER) [v2]

[Chen Liang]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 14:15:35 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Ok, but then shouldn't this add both ACC_IDENTITY and ACC_SUPER and leave it to the API to decide what to emit based on version?
>
> ACC_ ones are bit masks, and distinguishing them is meaningless. AccessFlag.IDENTITY and AccessFlag.SUPER are the actual differing ones. Validation of access flags by version requires somewhat invasive changes to the ClassFile API, so is not included in this patch.
> 
> Reminder, this class building is completely in non-preview. There is no point talking about identity here.

We can track making LMF/MHP value classes in https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8205668

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1533#discussion_r2319423466