RFR: 8143142: AssertionError in MethodHandleImpl

[Paul Sandoz]

> On 17 Nov 2015, at 15:21, Claes Redestad <claes.redestad at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it seems I've been testing assertions with the wrong flag.
> 

To share some knowledge: when running jtreg locally it is important to use the same parameters that are used when running the automated tests. To the best of my knowledge those parameters are:

  -ea -esa -avm


> 8142334 added the same assertion check to MethodHandleImpl that was there for DirectMethodHandle, which
> due to some bootstrapping dependency fails for the MethodHandleImpl case. This patch removes that assertion:
> 
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8143142/webrev.01/
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143142
> 

Looks ok to me (but i am getting a little lost in the maze of improvements and various iterations :-) ).

Paul.