Review request for JDK-8167443: Nashorn static method linking bypasses autoexported linkers

[Sundararajan Athijegannathan]

Good catch! +1

PS. We should perhaps convert few of those dynalink samples as tests..

Thanks,

-Sundar

On 10/11/2016 2:23 AM, Attila Szegedi wrote:
> Please review JDK-8167443 "Nashorn static method linking bypasses autoexported linkers" at <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~attila/8167443/webrev.jdk9> for <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8167443>
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> This is a fairly minor thing, but it was breaking one of our Dynalink samples so it actually brought to light a conceptual inconsistency.
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> I wrote a test for it, by factoring out the body of DynamicLinkerFactoryTest.autoLoadedLinkerTest and using it twice (once as original, although now it looks up the Object.toString method) and once with a static method (System.currentTimeMillis).
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> Thanks,
>   Attila.