notes from Valhalla meeting 5/24/17

[John Rose]

On Jun 19, 2017, at 6:28 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> I have updated the javadoc portion of the spec for constant-dynamic.
> There are small but strategic changes to MethodType and MethodHandle,
> as well as new classes to represent the "pull mode" of constant resolution.
> The key changes relevant to the JVM are in package-info.html,
> and (of course) in the forthcoming JVM spec. changes.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/jvm/specdiff-condy-2017-0619.zip <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/jvm/specdiff-condy-2017-0619.zip>

The forthcoming has come forth.  Here is a semi-formatted and
color-annotated diff of the JVMS outlining proposed support for
dynamic constants, as well as some enhancements to the processing
of bootstrap methods:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/jvm/condy-jvms-2017-0620.html

— John