[lworld] Dropping jdk.incubator.mvt and MVT change in MethodHandle and reflection

[John Rose]

On Feb 27, 2018, at 9:20 AM, Karen Kinnear <karen.kinnear at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 2) java/lang/invoke/MethodHandles.java
> 
> There should be no constructor for value types. 
> I believe Srikanth is ensuring that in javac, and the jvm will be ensuring that at runtime.
> So maybe that means that no constructor will be found.
> 
> Would it make sense for findConstructor to check for isValue and throw NoSuchMethodException
> directly? Or does that fall out of the ResolveOrFail call?
> 

Careful with this point:  Value types have no meaningful <init>
but they do have a meaning constructor at source level.
This means the findConstructor for a value type really
just finds the factory.

— John