JEPs proposed to target JDK 9 (2016/10/19)

[David M. Lloyd]

On 10/19/2016 12:14 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>   295: Ahead-of-Time Compilation
>        http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295

I have a question on this one - maybe it's best addressed specifically 
to John Rose though, and please forgive my relatively shallow 
understanding of the JIT and this new AOT compiler.

Does the AOT compiler depend on knowing all possible entry points into 
certain methods?  Is it possible for things like --add-exports with 
reflection, which change the set of known entry points into the code, to 
cause unexpected operation?  I saw no mention of these things on the JEP 
page but it was my understanding that AOT compilation depends on this 
kind of information.

Thanks!
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- DML