RFR: 8338471: Refactor Method::get_new_method() for better NoSuchMethodError handling

[Dean Long]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:51:38 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

> We do the same thing with illegal_access_error() where the arguments may not match and there's a special case for this and no_such_method_error() in dependencies. Are the compilers confused by this too?

If the compiler used the value from the itable, I think it could get confused.  There are places in deoptimization for example, that use the callee signature instead of the call-site signature, to deal with signature mismatch caused by the invokedynamic appendix.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20874#issuecomment-2345203264