RFR: 8338471: Refactor Method::get_new_method() for better NoSuchMethodError handling

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2024 20:37:43 GMT, Dean Long <dlong at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Also, doesn't this change mean that we can now return Unsafe.throwNoSuchMethodError() instead of the target method? > This probably works fine in the interpreter, but I'm worried this could break the compilers in subtle ways.

So we should return NoSuchMethodError because there no is no longer a target method.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20874#issuecomment-2333986803