RFR: 8378792: ObjectMethods.bootstrap missing getter validation

[Roger Riggs]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:15:14 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

> During review of Valhalla lworld vs mainline patch, I noticed Valhalla has a fix for a mainline issue where there is no getter validation for ObjectMethods.bootstrap. We should upstream this fix to mainline to make lworld cleaner and make mainline more robust.
> 
> Before this fix, the invalid getters caused weird exceptions in method handle construction. Now they consistently throw IllegalArgumentException as specified.

Marked as reviewed by rriggs (Reviewer).

test/jdk/java/lang/runtime/ObjectMethodsTest.java line 162:

> 160:     }
> 161: 
> 162:     record NamePlusType(String mn, MethodType mt) {}

Parameter/fields names of `name`, and `type` would make the uses below more readable.

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29941#pullrequestreview-3863131791
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29941#discussion_r2860912640