RFR 8195650 Method references to VarHandle accessors

[Paul Sandoz]

Gentle reminder.

I would like to get this reviews and pushed before the ramp down phase one kicks in this week.

Paul.

> On Jun 19, 2018, at 5:08 PM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> Please review the following fix to ensure method references to VarHandle signature polymorphic methods are supported at runtime (specifically the method handle to a signature polymorphic method can be loaded from the constant pool):
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>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk/JDK-8195650-varhandle-mref/webrev/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk/JDK-8195650-varhandle-mref/webrev/>
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> I also added a “belts and braces” test to ensure a constant method handle to MethodHandle::invokeBasic cannot be loaded if outside of the j.l.invoke package.
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> Paul.
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