RFR (M): JDK-8004967 - Default method cause java.lang.VerifyError: Illegal use of nonvirtual function call

[Karen Kinnear]

Change looks good give I don't know any way for the java library to get the internal method type information.

Can you please fix the spelling of "implementation" in the comment?

thanks,
Karen

p.s. And I think you are ensuring !abstract by doing an exact match of flags.
On Jan 16, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Bharadwaj Yadavalli wrote:

> Please review the change at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bharadwaj/8004967/webrev/
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> Default interface methods are new in Java 8. VM creates overpass methods in the vtable slots of classes to invoke a default method using invokespecial.
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> Consequently, invocation of default interface methods (i.e., overpass methods in the VM) via invokespecial is legal and should not be flagged as illegal.
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> In short, this change allows invocation of default methods of Java 8 using invokespecial.
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> I ran JCK (vm, lang, api) tests, runThese and vm.quicklist with no new failures.
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> Thanks,
> 
> Bharadwaj
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