On 1/27/20 6:31 AM, Remi Forax wrote:
I'm a bit curious about this:
To invoke private nestmate instance methods from code in the hidden class, use
invokevirtual or invokeinterface instead of invokespecial. Generated bytecode
that uses invokespecial to invoke a private nestmate instance method will fail
verification. invokespecial should only be used to invoke private nestmate
constructors.
This seems pretty unusual. Don't we normally use invokespecial for
private method invocations? What is the reasoning for this?
It's the new usual since 11 and the introduction of nestmates,
before javac was generating an accessor method (the access$000 methods).
:
As Remi said, this feature has been there since 11. You can reference
JEP 181 for more details.
Mandy
[1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/181
