8373524: C2: no reachable node should have no use

[rwestrel]

Hi all,

This pull request contains a backport of commit e72f205a from the openjdk/jdk repository.

The commit being backported was authored by Roland Westrelin on 19 Dec 2025 and was reviewed by Christian Hagedorn and Manuel Hässig.

Thanks!

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Issue

• JDK-8373524: C2: no reachable node should have no use (Bug - P3)

Reviewers

• Christian Hagedorn (@chhagedorn - Reviewer)

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8373524: C2: no reachable node should have no use

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[openjdk]

This backport pull request has now been updated with issue from the original commit.

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[chhagedorn]

Looks good! I will submit some testing for it together with #29041.

[chhagedorn]

Testing passed.

[rwestrel]

@chhagedorn thanks for the review and testing

[rwestrel]

/integrate

[openjdk]

Going to push as commit ebe8974.
Since your change was applied there have been 4 commits pushed to the jdk26 branch:

• 3103fa0: 8373122: JFR build failure with CDS disabled due to -Werror=unused-function after JDK-8365400
• 25462ba: 8374555: No need for visible input warning in s.s.u.Password when not reading from System.in
• a07e077: 8287062: com/sun/jndi/ldap/LdapPoolTimeoutTest.java failed due to different timeout message
• ... and 1 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/d8a1c1d04cab940b4a6cbe82fa2e445102aa9896...jdk26

Your commit was automatically rebased without conflicts.

[openjdk]

@rwestrel Pushed as commit ebe8974.

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