[MVT] anewarray and classloading

[David Simms]

On 09/09/17 16:06, Remi Forax wrote:
> There is a bug in hotspot,
> anewarray with a value type only works if the corresponding value capable class was loaded previously,
> otherwise, i get a NoClassDefFoundError.
>
> A way to reproduce the issue is to clone my valuetypify repo and comment the line
> https://github.com/forax/valuetypify/blob/master/src/test/java/fr/umlv/valuetypify/test/Hash.java#L150
>
> regards,
> Rémi
>
Thanks Remi, I'm working on testing the fix for it now: JDK-8184919

Cheers

/David Simms