8250659: Clarify in ParameterizedType.getRawType() doc that only Class is returned

[liach]

Clarify that only Class is returned for core reflection implementation, and the return type is Type to support other implementations, such as ones modeling unloaded or remote types.

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• JDK-8250659: Clarify in ParameterizedType.getRawType() doc that only Class is returned (Enhancement - P4)
• JDK-8335473: Clarify in ParameterizedType.getRawType() doc that only Class is returned (CSR) (Withdrawn)

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• Joe Darcy (@jddarcy - Reviewer)

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At the time when this comment was updated there had been 89 new commits pushed to the master branch:

• 9cfb0f7: 8341527: AVX-512 intrinsic for SHA3
• 4ce19ca: 8343190: GHA: Try building JTReg several times
• 7c800e6: 8343026: JFR: Index into fields in the topFrame
• d8b3685: 8342607: Enhance register printing on x86_64 platforms
• d8430ef: 8339573: Update CodeCacheSegmentSize and CodeEntryAlignment for ARM
• 6332e25: 8343183: [s390x]: Problemlist runtime/Monitor/SyncOnValueBasedClassTest.java Failure
• 79a07ad: 8343149: Cleanup os::print_tos_pc on AIX
• beff8bf: 8342823: Ubsan: ciEnv.cpp:1614:65: runtime error: member call on null pointer of type 'struct CompileTask'
• e389f82: 8343137: C2: VerifyLoopOptimizations fails with "Was reachable in only one"
• 0abfa3b: 8304824: NMT should not use ThreadCritical
• ... and 79 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/af5e53241b5f05ef56a437b66b2ad8c5eea5462c...master

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/csr unneeded

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@liach determined that a CSR request is not needed for this pull request.

[jddarcy]

Looks fine.

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/integrate

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Going to push as commit 158ae51.
Since your change was applied there have been 95 commits pushed to the master branch:

• b6f745d: 8342489: compiler/c2/irTests/TestVectorizationMismatchedAccess.java fails on big-endian platforms
• bd79594: 8343037: Missing @SInCE tag on JColorChooser.showDialog overload
• ceaa71e: 8342576: [macos] AppContentTest still fails after JDK-8341443 for same reason on older macOS versions
• 40f3d50: 8343211: Compile error: redefinition of 'Assembler::evmovdquw(XMMRegister,KRegister,XMMRegister,bool,int)'
• 60364ef: 8341273: JVMTI is not properly hiding some continuation related methods
• 520ddac: 8331861: [PPC64] Implement load / store assembler functions which take an Address object
• 9cfb0f7: 8341527: AVX-512 intrinsic for SHA3
• 4ce19ca: 8343190: GHA: Try building JTReg several times
• 7c800e6: 8343026: JFR: Index into fields in the topFrame
• d8b3685: 8342607: Enhance register printing on x86_64 platforms
• ... and 85 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/af5e53241b5f05ef56a437b66b2ad8c5eea5462c...master

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@liach Pushed as commit 158ae51.

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