Are there restrictions on the 'name' string for invokeDynamic?

[Ola Bini]

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On 2011-04-15 02.25, Mark Roos wrote:
> I ran into this error today and was wondering if "<" was not allowed as
> the name string for an invokeDynamic instruction?
> 
> An if there are restrictions where might I find the definitive
> reference?  I was using it for the Smalltalk method name and
> as a template for constants.  
> 
> Thanks
> mark

Hi Mark,

If I remember correctly, the same restrictions for method names in byte
code applies for the name as for all other method names. I handled this
by using John Rose's name mangling class more or less directly
(http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/entry/symbolic_freedom_in_the_vm  and
http://blogs.sun.com/jrose/resource/StringNames.java.txt). I then encode
the name before compiling it and then decode it in the bootstrap method.

Cheers
- -- 
 Ola Bini (http://olabini.com)
  Ioke - JRuby - ThoughtWorks

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