RFR: 8059632: Method reference compilation uses incorrect qualifying type

[Srikanth Adayapalam]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:31:11 GMT, Srikanth Adayapalam <sadayapalam at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Align with JLS 13.1 (the qualifying class or interface of the method invocation) by
>     referring to the type of the receiver rather than the type of the declaring 
>     class/interface in the bootstrap attribute

test/langtools/tools/javac/lambda/methodReference/8059632/MethodRefQualifyingTypeTest.java line 75:

> 73:         // per JLS 13.1 (see "the qualifying type of the method invocation").
> 74: 
> 75:         Class.forName("MethodRefQualifyingTypeTest$MethodInvoker").getMethod("invoke").invoke(null);

This test is actually derived from a "failing" JCK test: lang/LMBD/lmbd171/lmbd17101m51/lmbd17101m51.html.lmbd17101m51 that incorrectly asserts that there be a linkage error

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10809