JEP 276: Dynamic Linking of Language-Defined Object Models

[Andrew Haley]

On 10/18/2015 09:49 AM, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
> * Invokedynamic (like invokeinterface and invokevirtual) does not like 
> calls with null as receiver, quitting the call right away with a NPE. 
> But languages may allow for calls on null. That again means some kind of 
> dummy receiver is required, if this is supposed to work.

Wouldn't you just insert a null pointer check?  That's surely going to
be faster (if it's used) than the runtime taking a
NullPointerException.  And you don't want the runtime to have to trap
for null when many languages don't need it.

Andrew.