New candidate JEP: 371: Hidden Classes

Michael Paus mp at jugs.org
Sun Jan 26 21:31:17 UTC 2020


Am 26.01.20 um 18:24 schrieb 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.

If everybody firmly relies on everybody else watching out, then most
certainly nothing can go wrong. Sorry I dared to point out a potential
trouble spot.



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