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Fix byte and short annotation elements in annotation files - #8218

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In AnnotationFileParser.convert, binary numeric promotion made the BYTE and SHORT cases produce an int, so the boxed result was an Integer rather than a Byte or Short:

case BYTE -> number.byteValue() * scalefactor;
case SHORT -> number.shortValue() * scalefactor;

builderSetValue then dispatched to AnnotationBuilder.setValue(name, (Integer) value), whose checkSubtype threw BugInCF: given value differs from expected; found: java.lang.Integer; expected: java.lang.Byte. So a stub file containing a byte- or short-valued annotation element, such as @Anno(1) where Anno declares byte value(), crashed the compiler.

builderSetValue also had no Byte case, so even a correctly-typed Byte fell through to throw new BugInCF("Unexpected builder value: %s", value). Both problems had to be fixed together for a byte-valued annotation element to work at all.

The jtreg test checker/jtreg/stubs/Issue1542Driver.java now exercises byte and short annotation elements, in both scalar and array form and with both positive and negative values (including Byte.MIN_VALUE and Short.MIN_VALUE). That test crashes without the fix and passes with it.

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In `AnnotationFileParser.convert`, binary numeric promotion made the BYTE
and SHORT cases produce an `int`, so the boxed result was an `Integer`
rather than a `Byte` or `Short`.  `AnnotationBuilder.setValue` then threw
`BugInCF` because the value's run-time class did not match the declared
element type.  Cast each product back to the expected type.

Also add the missing `Byte` case to `builderSetValue`, which otherwise
falls through to `throw new BugInCF("Unexpected builder value: %s", ...)`.

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The change adds ByteExample and ByteArrayExample annotations. It adds stub fields that exercise byte and short scalar and array values, including negative boundary values. AnnotationFileParser now preserves Byte and Short results during conversion and forwards Byte values to the annotation builder instead of raising BugInCF.

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Invalid byte and short annotation literals can silently produce incorrect annotation values. The fix is localized, but this edge case should be addressed before merge.

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- Around line 2673-2674: Update the BYTE and SHORT branches in the annotation
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`AnnotationFileParser.getValueOfExpressionInAnnotation` returned a `Double`
for a `DoubleLiteralExpr` without converting it, so a `float` annotation
element such as `@FloatExample(1.0f)` crashed with `BugInCF: found:
java.lang.Double; expected: java.lang.Float`.  JavaParser represents both
`float` and `double` literals as a `DoubleLiteralExpr`, so the value must be
converted to the element's declared type.  A floating-point literal for an
integral element is now reported rather than truncated.

`AnnotationFileParser.convert` narrowed an integral value by casting, so
`@Anno(200)` for a `byte` element silently stored `-56` even though javac
rejects the equivalent source annotation.  Range-check the value and report
an out-of-range value as a warning.

To make the range check possible, the unary-minus case obtains its operand's
value as a `long` or `double` rather than as the element's declared type; the
negated value is then range-checked.  This also replaces the `BugInCF` for a
negated `char` with a warning.
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