> Hi,
> 
> Reflective construction of value object triggers assert in C2 because it does 
> not follow the normal object construction pattern and is technically UB 
> because we try to return a larval object from a method. I was told that this 
> is required for the construction of hidden classes, but to me it seems like 
> we put those restrictions on ourselves and shoot ourselves in the foot by 
> using these `Unsafe` hacks.
> 
> This PR tries to fix this issue by letting the compiler know of these methods 
> which can return or accept larval objects. Note that this is pretty fragile, 
> and seemingly harmless changes to the code shape generated by the 
> `MethodHandle` mechanism can break it, which is a usual symptom of undefined 
> behaviour.
> 
> Please take a look and leave your review, thanks a lot.

Quan Anh Mai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
commit since the last revision:

  rename

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2204/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2204/files/f9de2810..7659cd27

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=valhalla&pr=2204&range=01
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=valhalla&pr=2204&range=00-01

  Stats: 4 lines in 4 files changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 4 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2204.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla.git pull/2204/head:pull/2204

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2204

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