review request (S): 7042656: JSR292: invokeExact/Generic doesn't throw UnsupportedOperationException if invoked via Method.invoke

[John Rose]

Thanks, Tom.  -- John

On May 17, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:

> Looks good.
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> tom
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> On May 17, 2011, at 4:45 AM, John Rose wrote:
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>> This is a point fix to make the native methods MethodHandle.invoke and .invokeExact throw UnsupportedOperationException.
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>> Currently they throw a linkage exception, because they are not actually defined by C code.  (They are defined by Java, but when called fail to link.  This UOE is the documented exception type.)
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>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/7044892/webrev.jvm.00/src/share/vm/prims/methodHandles.cpp.udiff.html
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>> Because this is an exception error, it is bundled with bug 7044892.  This is a separate review because it is a JVM code change.
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>> -- John
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