RFR (S) : 8025260 : Methodhandles/JSR292: NullPointerException (NPE) thrown instead of AbstractMethodError (AME)

[David Chase]

On 2013-09-26, at 2:30 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
> That is, push the compare-null-and-branch code into this conditional:
>  if (!for_compiler_entry && JvmtiExport::can_post_interpreter_events()) {
> 
> The goal here is that vanilla compiled code should have a fast path that is as compact as possible.  Interpreted or "VerifyThread" code does not need to be compact.

That is, you want two copies of the test, one for the compiled case that is short, the other for the interpreted case that is potentially longer (and more general purpose) -- but this is a sparc-only issue, on Intel, branches is branches?

David

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