With all dependencies of com.sun.tools.classfile in the JDK converted to the ClassFile API, we can remove this legacy library for release 25 like how we removed ASM.
Testing: built locally, running tier 1-3 tests Don't know why, but GitHub is redundantly displaying changes that are already in #24212. ------------- Depends on: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24212 Commit messages: - 8352748: Remove com.sun.tools.classfile from the JDK - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into feature/remove-old-classfile - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into feature/migrate-create-symbols - Other references to remove - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into feature/migrate-create-symbols - FieldDescription.constantValue uses Integer for byte and short - 8310310: Migrate CreateSymbols tool in make/langtools to Classfile API Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24528/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=24528&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8352748 Stats: 11072 lines in 74 files changed: 42 ins; 10705 del; 325 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24528.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/24528/head:pull/24528 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24528
