On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:41:36 GMT, Timofei Pushkin <tpush...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> If a base class is package-private then its subclasses should have the same 
>> package name and defining class loader, otherwise `IllegalAccessError` is 
>> thrown when linking a subclass. Currently when dumping a static archive 
>> separate `URLClassLoader`s are used for each unregistered classes' source. 
>> Thus if two unregistered classes, a package-private base class and a sub 
>> class, from the same package reside in different sources 
>> `IllegalAccessError` will be thrown when linking the sub class. This can be 
>> unexpected because the app could have used a single class loader for both 
>> classes and thus not have seen the error — see `DifferentSourcesApp.java` 
>> from this patch for an example of such app.
>> 
>> This patch fixes the issue by using a single class loader for all 
>> unregistered classes. CDS does not allow classes with the same name making 
>> such solution possible.
>
> Timofei Pushkin has updated the pull request incrementally with two 
> additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Make RegUnregSuperTest AOTClassLinking-compatible
>  - Extend overshadowing explanation comments

Looks good to me overall. I just have a request for cleaning up 
`ClassListParser::check_supertype_overshadowing()`

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24223#pullrequestreview-2777066054

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