On invoke dynamic and method handles

[John Rose]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:06 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:

> Iulian Dragos a écrit :
> ...
>> One last question: does mlvm currently recognize the
>> BootstrapInvokeDynamic classfile attribute?
> It's another part of the spec that is outdated.
> I don't know exactly why.
> Perhaps john or charles can explain why ?
>> My tests were
>> unsuccessful, so I'm wondering if my code generator is wrong, or I
>> need to resort to static initializers.

The EG decided to get rid of the classfile attribute, since there  
seemed to be little reason to have two ways to do the same thing,  
where the less general way is only slightly more compact than the  
more general way.

-- John