review request (M): 7056328: JSR 292 invocation sometimes fails in adapters for types not on boot class path

[John Rose]

On Jun 22, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:

> Overall this looks good.  It's unfortunate we have to jump through so many hoops for this.  What's with these new constants?
> 
> +    ETF_FORCE_DIRECT_HANDLE   = 64,
> +    ETF_COMPILE_DIRECT_HANDLE = 65,
> 
> Are they used over in the JDK side?

They are used in stress testing; see this patch:
  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/jdk/file/tip/meth-hackdirect.patch

This patch is not going into JDK 7, but it is a useful stress test.  It allows us to compile and run every MH that receives an invokeWithArguments.  The JVM hook (which is package private) uses the above constants.

-- John