JEP 276: Dynamic Linking of Language-Defined Object Models

[Jochen Theodorou]

On 19.10.2015 03:09, John Rose wrote:
> On Oct 18, 2015, at 1:49 AM, Jochen Theodorou <blackdrag at gmx.org
> <mailto:blackdrag at gmx.org>> wrote:
>>
>> * Invokedynamic (like invokeinterface and invokevirtual) does not like
>> calls with null as receiver
>
> :-) Jochen, you are one of the few people on the planet who was around
> JSR 292 when this *was* true.
> A very early draft of indy piggy-backed on top of the invokeinterface
> instruction.
> Eventually we made it symmetrical in all its arguments, like
> invokestatic, as Attila pointed out.


ups... looks like I missed that. Well, then sorry for the fuzz ;) Can 
you tell me since what version this has been changed? Because I thought 
I had this problem with 1.8 still, but I could be wrong and it was only 
1.7.. Was it done along with the lambda forms rewrite?

bye blackdrag