BoundMethodHandle Klass and JVMTI heap walking

[Mark Roos]

Well that does explain why I have references to BoundMethodHandles  but it 
did not explain why I see them.
When I use FollowReferences I set the Klass filter to my desired result 
class 'myClass'.  But what I see after
the filter is myClass objects, arrays of myClass and BoundMethodHandles. 
Not quite what I would expect.

After reading more C code then I care to and trying several experiments I 
came to the conclusion that where
KlassHandle(tread, oop ) is called it returns null for the array and the 
BoundMethodHandle class pointers.
That is where my skills at tracing C code ended.

I found a solution for my case where I tag myClass with an unique tag and 
filter it myself in the callback.
Works great for both allInstances and allRefrences.  I still set the klass 
filter to limit the call backs but the
is not required.

thanks

mark
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