On 18.10.2015 10:55, Andrew Haley wrote:
On 10/18/2015 09:49 AM, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
* Invokedynamic (like invokeinterface and invokevirtual) does not like
calls with null as receiver, quitting the call right away with a NPE.
But languages may allow for calls on null. That again means some kind of
dummy receiver is required, if this is supposed to work.
Wouldn't you just insert a null pointer check? That's surely going to
be faster (if it's used) than the runtime taking a
NullPointerException. And you don't want the runtime to have to trap
for null when many languages don't need it.
Let's scrap that, outdated information on my side
