RFR(M) 7199175: JSR 292: C1 needs patching when	invokedynamic/invokehandle call site is not linked
    Andrew Haley 
    aph at redhat.com
       
    Wed May 29 01:39:43 PDT 2013
    
    
  
On 05/28/13 18:32, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> A fatal would be better; there is nothing to be implemented here.
> In general, we should not add new ShouldNotReachHere or
> Unimplemented calls.  Adding fatals with a useful message is the
> preferred way.
Ahh, now I find out.  There are, er, a lot of ShouldNotReachHere()s in the
AArch64 project.  :-)
So, just a fatal() with a suitable message.  Why is this preferred?
Andrew.
    
    
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