RFR: 8378792: ObjectMethods.bootstrap missing getter validation [v2]

[Chen Liang]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:42:24 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.
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>> Before this fix, the invalid getters caused weird exceptions in method handle construction. Now they consistently throw IllegalArgumentException as specified.
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> Chen Liang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Name change as review recommended

Thanks for the reviews! This will facilitate Valhalla cleanups.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29941#issuecomment-3974245446