RFR: 8378792: ObjectMethods.bootstrap missing getter validation

Thu Feb 26 19:33:23 UTC 2026

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 jvernee (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29941#pullrequestreview-3863134702