8038146: Clarify Map.Entry's connection to the underlying map

[stuart-marks]

Also additional verbiage regarding Map.Entry objects in general and their possible connection to an underlying Map.

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• JDK-8038146: Clarify Map.Entry's connection to the underlying map
• JDK-8300622: Clarify Map.Entry's connection to the underlying map (CSR)

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• Alan Bateman (@AlanBateman - Reviewer)

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/csr

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@stuart-marks please create a CSR request for issue JDK-8038146 with the correct fix version. This pull request cannot be integrated until the CSR request is approved.

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Please review CSR JDK-8300622.

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At the time when this comment was updated there had been 278 new commits pushed to the master branch:

• 77f2d20: 8287873: Add test for using -XX:+AutoCreateSharedArchive with different JDK versions
• 93a933d: 8300400: Update --release 20 symbol information for JDK 20 build 32
• 9b97699: 8300586: Refactor code examples to use @snippet in java.text.Collator
• fbbb27e: 8300356: Refactor code examples to use @snippet in java.text.CollationElementIterator
• dfcd65c: Merge
• 1c84050: 8298400: Virtual thread instability when stack overflows
• 62a2f23: 8300490: Spaces in name of MacOS Code Signing Identity are not correctly handled after JDK-8293550
• f2a1eb9: 8300698: Missing @SInCE tag for ClassFileFormatVersion.RELEASE_21
• 558d610: 8299553: Make ScaledEtchedBorderTest.java comprehensive
• 80ab50b: 8294680: Refactor scaled border rendering
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/integrate

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Going to push as commit c6d5600.
Since your change was applied there have been 286 commits pushed to the master branch:

• b2d3622: 8299896: Reduce enum values of HtmlLinkInfo.Kind
• 623ba5b: 8300653: G1EvacInfo should use common naming scheme for collection set
• 97c611d: 8289748: C2 compiled code crashes with SIGFPE with -XX:+StressLCM and -XX:+StressGCM
• 4562b40: 8300682: InstanceKlassMiscStatus is a bad name
• 26410c1: 8281213: Unsafe uses of long and size_t in MemReporterBase::diff_in_current_scale
• eca6479: 8300087: Replace NULL with nullptr in share/cds/
• 49d60fe: 8300172: java/net/httpclient/MappingResponseSubscriber.java failed with java.net.ConnectException
• e189397: 8296403: [TESTBUG] IR test runner methods in TestLongRangeChecks.java invoke wrong test methods
• 77f2d20: 8287873: Add test for using -XX:+AutoCreateSharedArchive with different JDK versions
• 93a933d: 8300400: Update --release 20 symbol information for JDK 20 build 32
• ... and 276 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/82deb5ca615f70634f8cd84836265d01edd1c5a5...master

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