for review (L): 6858164: invokedynamic cleanups (part B)

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Looks good.

Vladimir

John Rose wrote:
> As I mentioned in the previous review request, JSR 292 code for the 
> JavaOne Preview needs two batches of fixes.
> 
> Here is the second batch, for invokedynamic (on top of method handles).  
> The diffs of this review request are new, although I erroneously 
> mentioned its bug number in a previous review request.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/6858164/webrev.02/
> 
> 6858164: invokedynamic code needs some cleanup (post-6655638)
> 
> 467 lines changed: 100 ins; 287 del; 80 mod; 42741 unchg
> 
> Summary:
>  - fix several crashers
>  - remove needless paths for boxed-style bootstrap method call
>  - refactor & simplify APIs for rewriter constantPoolOop
>  - remove sun.dyn.CallSiteImpl
> 
> Testing:  These changes have been in use by several users of the mlvm 
> patch repo., as a base for further development.  They correctly run all 
> current invokedynamic test code.
> 
> Still to follow:
> - compiler support for invokedynamic
> - inlining of method handles
> - API adjustments that affect the JVM (mainly, removing private supertypes)
> - ports to x64, SPARC
> - compressed oop support
>