MethodHandle.invoke* should only work with source 1.7

[Rémi Forax]

On 02/11/2011 10:10 AM, John Rose wrote:
> 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

Or throws a VerifyError before.

Rémi

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