MethodHandle.invoke* should only work with source 1.7

[John Rose]

On Feb 11, 2011, at 12:57 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:

> Anyway, I wonder why hotspot works when it find a Methodhandle.invoke* 
> in a 1.6 classfile.

Interesting question.  I suppose it should hook up to the native method which (as the EG has decided) will throw UnsupportedOperationException, rather than try to guess at the lost type descriptor.

-- John

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