On Fri, 9 May 2025 14:35:38 GMT, Vicente Romero <vrom...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR is defining a new internal annotation, 
>> `@jdk.internal.RequiresIdentity`, with target types PARAMETER and 
>> TYPE_PARAMETER. The @RequiresIdentity annotation expresses the expectation 
>> that an argument to a given method or constructor parameter will be an 
>> object with a unique identity, not an instance of a value-based class; or 
>> that the type argument to a given type parameter will not be a value-based 
>> class type.
>> 
>> For more details please refer to the complete description in the 
>> corresponding JIRA entry [1]
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8354556
>
> Vicente Romero has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   documentation and adding alias to lint categories

src/jdk.compiler/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/code/Lint.java line 434:

> 432:             // we need to do this as forward references are not allowed
> 433:             if (alias != null) {
> 434:                 alias.alias = this;

I think we wish to make this a union-find-like structure (if you are familiar 
with leetcode problems) - we need to have some category as roots that point to 
themselves. Other category like synchronization can point to identity. When we 
use a `LintCategory` we do a "find root" to find the actual category to use.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24746#discussion_r2081830955

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