Because of a strong and reasonable request from the IBM JVM team, the JSR 292
class file format for CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic is changing one more time. The
current format looks like this:
struct { u1 tag = 18, u2 bsm: MethodHandle, u2 nt: NameAndType, u2
argc, u2 argv[argc] }
The new format will look like this:
struct { u1 tag = 18, u2 bsm_spec: MethodHandle, u2 nt: NameAndType }
The bsm_spec will be an index into an explicit side-table in the class file,
containing an array of the same information as before (MethodHandle, argc,
argv[argc]). The side-table will be a new attribute named "BootstrapMethods".
This format change will make the class file format a easier to parse by some
JVMs (such as J9).
I will be putting out a review request soon for this.
-- John
On Nov 2, 2010, at 2:38 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2010, at 9:08 PM, John Rose wrote:
>> ...
>> Thanks. I am updating the webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/6984311/webrev.03/
>
> Looks good. -- Christian
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