Request for reviews (XL): 6894206: JVM needs a way to traverse method handle structures

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Christian Thalinger wrote:
>> Why it is not simple ?:
>>
>> !     assert(flags_for(id) == Flags(flags), "correct id");
> 
> Well, I don't see how this should work.  The Flags enum has completely
> different values than AccessFlags.
> 
> (dbx) p flags
> flags = 257
> (dbx) p flags_for(id)
> flags_for(id) = F_R
> (dbx) whatis F_R
> enum Flags {..., F_R=1, ...};
> 

It could be useful to have an array to map Flags to AccessFlags combination,
it is only 7 elements.

Vladimir