On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 00:54:57 GMT, Mandy Chung <mch...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/reflect/MethodHandleAccessorFactory.java
>> line 151:
>>
>>> 149: var setter = isReadOnly ? null :
>>> JLIA.unreflectField(field, true);
>>> 150: Class<?> type = field.getType();
>>> 151: if (type == Boolean.TYPE) {
>>
>> dumb question: any reason why `boolean.class` (which is compiled to a LDC)
>> is not used?
>
> I only see `boolean.class` compiled to `getstatic Boolean.TYPE`. Is there a
> javac flag to compile it to a LDC?
The LDC bytecode instruction for a class takes a class name not a descriptor as
parameter, so there is no way to encode LDC Z. Valhalla may change that.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5027
