New candidate JEP: 371: Hidden Classes

[Andrew Dinn]

On 26/01/2020 12:18, Michael Paus wrote:
> Am 26.01.20 um 13:00 schrieb core-libs-dev-request at openjdk.java.net:
>> This would help the reflective support for inline classes and
>> new VM/language feature such that adding support in MethodHandle
>> will work both both.
> 
> In that case watch out for GraalVM. Native-image does not fully support
> MethodHandles.
> 
> See:
> https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/substratevm/LIMITATIONS.md#invokedynamic-bytecode-and-method-handles
I think you have put the cart before the horse here. Surely, it is the
Graal project that needs to watch out.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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