RFR (S + L test) : 8016839 : JSR292: AME instead of IAE when calling a method

[David Chase]

I wasn't 100% clear on the desire to not add another preloaded class, and I was under the impression that if s.m.Unsafe could not load, then things were hosed indeed.  If there's another already preloaded class that would be a good choice, it is an easy change to make; MethodHandleNatives, or others in the java.lang.invoke world, also seem potentially appropriate, though there is also a possibility that someone might want to backport this to 7 (I can demonstrate the bug in 6, and I suspect also in 5 if I could get my hands on such a VM) so we need to be aware of that, too (I am not myself 100% clear on which of those files appeared when, except that sun.misc.Unsafe has been around for a while).

David

On 2013-11-25, at 4:49 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:

> HI David,
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> Just curious: why did you chose to add the method, throwIllegalAccessError, to s.m.Unsafe and add Unsafe to the list pre-loaded classes rather than modifying an existing pre-loaded class?
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