for review (L): 6858164: invokedynamic code needs some cleanup (post-6655638)

[Tom Rodriguez]

This all looks fine to me.

tom

On Jul 23, 2009, at 2:24 AM, John Rose wrote:

> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/6858164/vm-webrev.01/
>
> Summary:  These are fixes for method handles proper.
> - correctly raises exceptions
> - supports safe bitwise "raw" conversions (e.g., int -> void)
> - fixes bugs (various, small) revealed by VerifyMethodHandles
> - dead code is removed
> - debugging support is improved
>
> Still to follow:
> - more bug fixes to the invokedynamic instruction
> - runtime simplification for invokedynamic
> - compiler support for invokedynamic
> - inlining of method handles
> - API adjustments that affect the JVM (mainly, removing private  
> supertypes)
>