[lworld] RFR: 8373202: [lworld] ObjectReference.equals should follow == semantics for value objects

[Chris Plummer]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:58:16 GMT, Alex Menkov <amenkov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> isInlined name (and its implementation) is consistent with hotspot code.
But in the case of JDI we are talking about a potentially external API.

>To me IsIdentity (I think isValue is better) should be in ClassType
We need to be careful of the use of "value" in JDI since we already have com.sun.jdi.Value, which peculates into all sorts of APIs like ObjectReference.getValue(Field) and BooleanValue. It doesn't help any that we also have Value.type().

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1834#discussion_r2692723345