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

[mandy chung]

Hi Karen,

On 2/27/18 9:20 AM, Karen Kinnear wrote:
> Mandy,
>
> Many thanks for doing these changes!
>
> I had a couple of questions on the source changes:
>
> 1) java/lang/invoke/MethodType.java
>    leadingReferenceParameter()
>
> The way we are modeling this, a value type is a reference. It sometimes requires
> special handling - like arrays or interfaces do - but it is still a subtype of java.lang.Object, so still a reference.
>
> I am not sure of the uses of leadingReferenceParameter - but I would expect it to
> only throw an exception for primitives.

This patch is the first pass to clean up lworld branch. 
leadingReferenceParameter change is simply reverting back to the default 
branch version.   I will have to look into how MethodHandle and 
VarHandles work with values in the next pass.   I did change core 
reflection to throw IAE when setting fields in values as they are 
immutable.   Basically I try to do this in a few patches.

> 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?

I leave MethodHandle support in the next iteration.   Sorry I should 
have made this clear in my message.   Are you okay with dropping MVT 
first and handle MHs and tests subsequently?


Mandy
> It would be good to have an explicit test for this if you are collecting test cases.
>
> thanks,
> Karen
>
>
>
>> On Feb 23, 2018, at 11:45 AM, mandy chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/valhalla/webrevs/lworld-drop-mvt
>>
>> This is the first pass to remove jdk.incubator.mvt module and
>> MVT support in MethodHandle and reflection.  I have also added
>> Class::isValue method to determine if it's a value class.  Fields
>> of a value class are immutable and Field::setXXX methods will
>> throw IAE if the declaring class is a value class.
>>
>> Mandy
>>