Email from Maurizio:

I'm writing to you as Alan Bateman suggested you did some refactorings in this area. I noted that the JDK 10/11 code is more strict when it comes to Unsafe.dAC - that is generally a good thing, but lately I've been bumping into an issue which seems to be more a 'bug' than a feature. Attached is a test case - I would expect the test to run w/o issue (the test is defining an anonymous class which implements an interface but does NOT override the interface method I::m). Typically this should run and then fail over with AbstractMethodError if I call I::m on the obtained instance.

Instead, if I run this I get a cryptic message:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:493)
    at TestUdAC.main(TestUdAC.java:61)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:569)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMainV2.main(AppMainV2.java:131)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: TestUdAC$I$$impl
    at TestUdAC$I$$impl/0x00000007c00ac830.<init>(Unknown Source)
    ... 10 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: TestUdAC$I$$impl
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:582)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:499)
    ... 11 more 

Which seems to have more to do with class loading; however there's nothing wrong in the bytecode (apart from the obviously missing method implementation); it seems to me that some check that was added in jdk10/11 is going wild here, probably as a result of the covariant override in Struct::ptr.