Request for reviews (M): 6930772: JSR 292 needs to support SPARC C1

[John Rose]

On Apr 27, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:

> It seems there is a mismatch somewhere.  When running JRuby tests with
> C2 I get asserts like:

The mismatch is that the method triggering the assert is a member of InvokeDynamic, not MethodHandle.

This means somebody reasonably thinks it's not really a method handle invoke.  In fact, it is a generated adapter for a compiled dynamic call site, isn't it?  And if we ever allow reflection to reify InvokeDynamic methods somehow, there will be regular methods that are members of InvokeDynamic, some of whom might be named 'invoke'.

So, there's a terminology problem here.

I think is_method_handle_invoke should be true only for the signature-polymorphic members of java.dyn.MethodHandle (invoke, eventually invokeGeneric/invokeExact).  We should have a different predicate (if we need it) for adapters.

-- John