Hi,changing to use GetPropertyAction in MethodHandleImpl unexpectedly caused a nasty bootstrap issue. Moving the MAX_ARITY constant to MethodHandleStatics avoids the issue and might be sensible to do regardless.
bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8163946 webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8163946/webrev.01/ Thanks! /Claes