Re: Question About MethodHandles.findSpecial

2009-05-06 Thread Fredrik Öhrström
John Rose skrev: > It would let you emulate the super(...) call in a language which needs > to make a subclass of some Java class with a non-trivial constructor, > without forcing the language to generate bytecodes for that subclass's > constructor call. When I think a little bit more about t

Re: Question About MethodHandles.findSpecial

2009-05-06 Thread John Rose
On May 6, 2009, at 4:03 AM, Fredrik Öhrström wrote: > The bytecode verifier also prohibits calling a constructor on an > already > initialized reference. With a MethodHandle to a constructor it would > be > possible violate this restriction. I am not sure this is a good idea. You're right in

hg: mlvm/mlvm/langtools: meth, quid: update patch repo consistently with yesterday's push to JDK7 of 6829189

2009-05-06 Thread john . rose
Changeset: 556edafa03fd Author:jrose Date: 2009-05-06 18:57 -0700 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/langtools/rev/556edafa03fd meth, quid: update patch repo consistently with yesterday's push to JDK7 of 6829189 ! meth-6829189.patch < meth.patch ! meth.txt ! quid-6829189.pa

hg: mlvm/mlvm/jdk: meth, indy: update patch repo consistently with yesterday's push to JDK7 of 6829144

2009-05-06 Thread john . rose
Changeset: a5f19be63c32 Author:jrose Date: 2009-05-06 19:45 -0700 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/jdk/rev/a5f19be63c32 meth, indy: update patch repo consistently with yesterday's push to JDK7 of 6829144 + anonk-6829144.patch - anonk.patch ! indy-6829144.patch < indy.patc

hg: mlvm/mlvm/jdk: 2 new changesets

2009-05-06 Thread john . rose
Changeset: 62704edcb9f0 Author:jrose Date: 2009-05-06 20:03 -0700 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/jdk/rev/62704edcb9f0 dyncast: add experimental patch + dyncast.patch Changeset: a63c9ae3622a Author:jrose Date: 2009-05-06 20:03 -0700 URL: http://hg.openjdk.

hg: mlvm/mlvm/langtools: meth: restart patch empty after 6829189

2009-05-06 Thread john . rose
Changeset: 2e0a61f2128a Author:jrose Date: 2009-05-06 19:59 -0700 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm/langtools/rev/2e0a61f2128a meth: restart patch empty after 6829189 + meth.patch ! series ___ mlvm-dev mailing list mlvm-dev@openj