RFR (S) 8024599: JSR 292 direct method handles need to respect initialization rules for static members

[Vladimir Ivanov]

John,

I don't see much value in documenting buggy behavior of early JDK7 in 
JDK8 code. So, I would remove it.

Regarding the test:
   31  * @run main/othervm/timeout=3600
   - why do you have timeout set to 1h?

I like the idea how you count events.

As a suggestion for enhancement - maybe it's more reliable to check the 
"type" of event as well? To ensure that particular class was initialized.

Best regards,
Vladimir Ivanov

On 9/20/13 1:38 AM, John Rose wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2013, at 7:24 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com
> <mailto:john.r.rose at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>> Please review this change for a change to the JSR 292 implementation:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/8024599/webrev.00/
>>
>> Summary: Align MH semantic with bytecode behavior of constructor and
>> static member accesses, regarding <clinit> invocation.
>>
>> The change is to javadoc and unit tests, documenting and testing some
>> corner cases of JSR 292 APIs.
>
> I have a reviewer (Alex Buckley) for the documentation changes, but I
> would also like a quick code review for the unit test.
>
> Also, there is a code insertion (predicated on a "false" symbolic
> constant) which serves to document the buggy JDK 7 behavior.  I'm not
> particularly attached to it, so I'm open to either a yea or nay on
> keeping it.  Leaning nay at the moment.
>
> — John
>
>
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