Java 7 update 12 issue with MethodHandles.catchException.

[MacGregor, Duncan (GE Energy Management)]

I do see the failure with 8 as well.

On 12/12/2012 17:31, "Christian Thalinger"
<christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:

>Do you see the same failure with 8 (to rule out differences between 7u12
>and 8)?
>
>-- Chris
>
>On Dec 12, 2012, at 7:12 AM, "MacGregor, Duncan (GE Energy Management)"
><duncan.macgregor at ge.com> wrote:
>
>> Finally got time to try running our full application under 7u12 and
>>I've hit a problem with our database library. In two cases where we are
>>combining method handles to catch exceptions from a library method,
>>process those exceptions to fill in our own error information and then
>>fallback to the proper error handling code, we are failing to be bind
>>properly. The failure occurs with methods with 9 or more arguments where
>>the last one is an array.
>> 
>> I've attached a minimal test case which works under update 10 but fails
>>under update 12 (all tests on Windows x64) and shows the difference in
>>behaviour with the number of args.
>> <MethodHandleBug.java>
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