7087658: MethodHandles.Lookup.findVirtual is confused by interface methods that are multiply inherited

Tue May 7 14:27:15 PDT 2013

On Mar 28, 2012, at 4:54 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:

> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/7087658/webrev.00/
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> 7087658: MethodHandles.Lookup.findVirtual is confused by interface methods that are multiply inherited
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> This is a point fix for JDK 8, and will (pending approval) also be back-ported to JDK 7u.

Why was this a point fix?  Sorry, I can't remember.  It seems we still have failures related to this bug.

-- Chris

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> — John
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> Notes on process:  This code is part of JSR 292.  Therefore the review comments will be collected in mlvm-dev, and changes will be integrated via hsx/hotspot-comp.
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> At least one reviewer must be an official Reviewer the JDK 8 Project [1], but other reviewers are most welcome.
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> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk8
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