HSX-25 / JDK7 incompatibility [Was: RFR(M) JDK-8031819: Remove legacy jdk checks and code]

[David Holmes]

I already responded with:

"IIRC there are a bunch of java.lang.invoke / MethodHandle changes in 8 
that are not compatible with JDK 7."

Sorry but I don't have time to dig up the specifics right now.

David

On 18/06/2014 9:16 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Ping.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Andrew.
>
>
> On 06/12/2014 06:20 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 06/06/2014 02:07 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
>>> This caught my eye... Have we already reached a point where we
>>> can't put the current JDK9 JVM into various JDK8 builds? I know
>>> we have restrictions about putting the current JVM (and the
>>> HSX-25 JVM) into JDK7...
>>
>> I don't know what these restrictions are; I'd be very interested
>> to know, please.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew.
>>
>