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

[Bharadwaj Yadavalli]

Thanks for reviewing the changes, David and Karen.

Bharadwaj

On 4/17/2013 10:31 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> This seems reasonable to me.
>
> David
>
> On 18/04/2013 3:18 AM, 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.
>>
>> Testing done: Ensured changes do not break backward compatibility by
>> running JPRT; also tests in lambda repo.
>>
>> JBS : https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8006267
>> Webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bharadwaj/8006267/hotspot/webrev/
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bharadwaj
>>