Hi, it seems I've been testing assertions with the wrong flag.
8142334 added the same assertion check to MethodHandleImpl that was there for DirectMethodHandle, which due to some bootstrapping dependency fails for the MethodHandleImpl case. This patch removes that assertion:
webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8143142/webrev.01/ bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143142 /Claes