RFR: 8273916: Remove 'special' ranking

[David Holmes]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:50:22 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This change removes the special ranking and folds it into nosafepoint.  You have to look at commit #3 to see this actual part of the change that doesn't include JDK-8273915.
> This passes tier1-6 also.

Sorry Coleen but I'm not understanding the mapping process here. I expected to see all special changed to the same thing, eg. nosafepoint, , and all special-N changed to nosafepoint-N, but you have not done that. ???

David

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5563