Am 26.02.2015 01:02, schrieb Charles Oliver Nutter:
After talking with folks at the Jfokus VM Summit, it seems like there's a number of nice-to-have and a few need-to-have features we'd like to see get into java.lang.invoke. Vladimir suggested I start a thread on these features.
my biggest request: allow the call of a super constructor (like super(foo,bar)) using MethodHandles an have it understood by the JVM like a normal super constructor call... same for this(...)
Because what we currently do is annoying and a major pita, plus it bloats the bytecode we have to produce. And let us better not talk about speed or the that small verifier change that made our hack unusable in several java update versions for 7 and 8.
This has been denied in the past because of security reasons... And given that we need dynamic argument types to determine the constructor to be called, and since that we have to do a call from the runtime in the uncached case, I fully understand why this is not done... just... it would be nice to have a solution that does not require us doing basically a big switch table with several invokespecial calls
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