RFR: 8263377: Store method handle linkers in the 'non-nmethods' heap

Tue Jun 7 23:25:34 UTC 2022

On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 01:23:58 GMT, Dean Long <dlong at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Can't we use the existing AdapterBlob or MethodHandlesAdapterBlob?

An MH intrinsic is handled differently from them in SharedRuntime::continuation_for_implicit_exception and compiledIC.
The extra field _method is used in places like trace_exception unless this information is not important.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8760