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 11:59 PM, John Rose wrote:

> 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

I'm working through several small bugs that the stress test uncovered.  Will repost my webrev when done.  -- John