Request for reviews (XS): 7087727: JSR 292: C2 crash if ScavengeRootsInCode=2 when "static final" MethodHandle constants are in use

[John Rose]

On Nov 8, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:

>   Why would some call sites that invoke an MH used invokevirtual and others use invokespecial?

That depends partly on where the MH constant originally came from, whether it was findVirtual, findStatic, or findSpecial.  The bytecode probably came from MethodHandleChain::set_last_method.

The change looks good.

-- John

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