RFR (S) : JDK-8006267 - InterfaceMethod_ref should allow invokestatic and invokespecial

[Karen Kinnear]

Bharadwaj,

Looks good.

thanks,
Karen

On Apr 17, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Bharadwaj Yadavalli wrote:

> I would like to request for a review of code changes made to support lambda related changes to allow static invokestatic and invokespecial calls to InterfaceMethod_ref per spec version 0.6.2 (http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dlsmith/jsr335-0.6.2.html). These changes support an upcoming change that compiles lambdas as private static methods.
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> Testing done: Ensured changes do not break backward compatibility by running JPRT; also tests in lambda repo.
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> JBS : https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8006267
> Webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bharadwaj/8006267/hotspot/webrev/
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> Thanks,
> 
> Bharadwaj
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