Indirect specialized calls

[Remi Forax]

On 09/23/2014 03:44 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> In itself, the bytecode looks good. This seems caused by the fact that 
> the specializer is not specializing the static arguments in the 
> bootstrap method. If you run the example with this useful option (thx 
> Brian!):
>
> -Dvalhalla.dumpProxyClasses=path_to_specialized_classes
>
> The specializer will dump all classes on a given folder. I did that 
> and javap'ed the specialized class SpecializationTest$Nested${0=I} and 
> found the following code for 'call':
>
> public int call(SpecializationTest${0=I});
>     descriptor: (LSpecializationTest${0=I};)I
>     flags: ACC_PUBLIC
>     Code:
>       stack=1, locals=2, args_size=2
>          0: aload_1
>          1: invokedynamic #46,  0             // InvokeDynamic 
> #0:get:(LSpecializationTest;)Ljava/lang/Object;
>          6: ireturn
>     Signature: #29                          // 
> (LSpecializationTest${0=I};)I
> }
> BootstrapMethods:
>   0: #38 invokestatic 
> java/lang/invoke/GenericMethodSpecializer.metafactory:(Ljava/lang/invoke/MethodHandles$Lookup;Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/invoke/MethodType;[Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/invoke/CallSite;
>     Method arguments:
>       #43 invokestatic 
> SpecializationTest.get:(LSpecializationTest;)Ljava/lang/Object;
>       #45 TTT;
>
> As yo can see, the BSM attribute in the specialized class has a bad 
> method handle - it says get(LSpecializationTest) where it should 
> probably say get(LSpecializationTest{0=I}) - hence the error. We are 
> working towards hunting those bugs down.
>
> Thanks
> Maurizio

I think you have a similar issue with lambdas.

Rémi

>
> On 23/09/14 14:09, Jan Lahoda wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> While experimenting with accessors to private specialized fields, I 
>> ran across a case where javac produces a classfile that crashes at 
>> runtime (on a custom build from valhalla forest). I apologize if this 
>> is a known problem, or if I am doing something wrong.
>>
>> The code is like this:
>> ---
>> public class SpecializationTest<any T> {
>>
>>     public T i;
>>
>>     public static <any TT> TT get(SpecializationTest<TT> t) {
>>         return t.i;
>>     }
>>
>>     public static void main(String[] args) {
>>         Nested.main(args);
>>     }
>>
>>     public static class Nested<any TT> {
>>         public static void main(String[] args) {
>>             SpecializationTest<int> v = new SpecializationTest<>();
>>
>>             new Nested<int>().call(v);
>>         }
>>         public TT call(SpecializationTest<TT> v) {
>>             return get(v);
>>         }
>>     }
>> }
>> ---
>>
>> The output of javap for the compiled classes is attached.
>>
>> Running the compiled class leads to:
>> ---
>> Specializing SpecializationTest${0=I}; searching for 
>> SpecializationTest.class (not found)
>> Specializing SpecializationTest${0=I}; searching for 
>> SpecializationTest.class (found)
>> Specializing SpecializationTest$Nested${0=I}; searching for 
>> SpecializationTest$Nested.class (not found)
>> Specializing SpecializationTest$Nested${0=I}; searching for 
>> SpecializationTest$Nested.class (found)
>> Specializing (LSpecializationTest;)Ljava/lang/Object; to 
>> (LSpecializationTest${0=I};)I
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: Bad type on operand 
>> stack
>> Exception Details:
>>   Location:
>> SpecializationTest$Nested${0=I}.call(LSpecializationTest${0=I};)I @1: 
>> invokedynamic
>>   Reason:
>>     Type 'SpecializationTest${0=I}' (current frame, stack[0]) is not 
>> assignable to 'SpecializationTest'
>>   Current Frame:
>>     bci: @1
>>     flags: { }
>>     locals: { 'SpecializationTest$Nested${0=I}', 
>> 'SpecializationTest${0=I}' }
>>     stack: { 'SpecializationTest${0=I}' }
>>   Bytecode:
>>     0000000: 2bba 002e 0000 ac
>>
>>         at SpecializationTest$Nested.main(SpecializationTest.java:17)
>>         at SpecializationTest.main(SpecializationTest.java:10)
>> ---
>>
>> Any idea what is wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>     Jan
>