[11] RFR 8195694: ConstantBootstraps.invoke does not preserve variable arity

[John Rose]

On second thought, you should also use invokeWithArguments to support jumbo arities. 

This tricky idiom should be put into a utility method, package private for starters. A version of it also appears in BSM invocation code. 

> On Jan 31, 2018, at 3:23 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
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> If you remove the old asType call it’s good!
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>> On Jan 31, 2018, at 3:15 PM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> Please review this fix to the invoke BSM so that it preserves variable arity, if any:
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk/JDK-8195694-constant-bsms-invoke-arity/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk/JDK-8195694-constant-bsms-invoke-arity/webrev/>
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>> This will be pushed to the hs repo.
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>> Thanks,
>> Paul.
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