hg: valhalla/valhalla: 8222711: [lworld] Initial skeletal implementation of inline class instance construction via <init>

[Harold Seigel]

Hi John,

 >> Anybody want to co-pilot these changes?

I'll take a stab at it but will certainly ask core libs and others for help.

Harold

On 4/21/2019 2:57 AM, John Rose wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/jvm/JDK-8222787/
>
> This seems to work.  It builds in fastdebug mode and passes
> the eight jtreg tests in test/jdk/valhalla/*.  It also passes
> most of the tests in test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/valhalla/*.
>
> I hacked your option logic, Srikanth, to force javac to use
> the new mode all the time.  This made it easier to verify
> that things were working—and that change is yours to
> roll back.
>
> The method handle logic changes are untested and
> probably broken.
>
> (Anybody want to co-pilot these changes? :-)
>
> — John
>
> P.S. To those celebrating, Happy Easter!
>
> On Apr 20, 2019, at 11:48 AM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
>> I've been wanting to do this for some time.  I'll take a crack at it.
>>
>>> On Apr 20, 2019, at 8:19 AM, Srikanth <srikanth.adayapalam at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> JVM folk:
>>>
>>> I have raised https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8222787 ([lworld] JVM should be enhanced to work with static <init> factory methods for inline types) in connection with this.