review request (XL): 6981777: implement JSR 292 EG adjustments from summer 2010

[Rémi Forax]

  Le 26/10/2010 10:39, John Rose a écrit :
> This is a large set of miscellaneous API adjustments that takes account of intensive JSR 292 Expert Group work since the JVM Language Summit and JavaOne.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/6981777/webrev.01/
>
> An earlier message, sent to the EG and copied to mlvm-dev, details the changes:
>    http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/mlvm-dev/2010-October/002048.html
>
> The focus of this change set is finalizing the API.  The implementation in some cases is still partial.
>
> This change set passes the included jtreg unit tests, notably the one for the MethodHandles API.
>
> If you wish to consult the javadoc for this API change, it is here:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/indy-javadoc-mlvm (live distribution)
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/indy-javadoc-mlvm-1026.zip (archived copy for this version)
>
> Thanks,
> -- John
>
> P.S. Thanks to Remi Forax and Alex Buckley for already pointing out bugs in the 1024 javadoc.  They are fixed here.

You should also remove MethodType.toBytecodeString() and 
MethodType.fromBytecodeString()
or at least deprecate them.

They are very old and the backport never support them and nobody complain.

Rémi

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