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Java uses of bootstrap methods for indy and condy, and is likely to further modify them. The code in the JVM and JDK needs consolidation. The JDK support code for BSMs is hard to read and maintain. Let's clean it up and simplify it. There should be a single BootstrapInfo struct in the JVM which expresses all BSM-related state, similar to the CallInfo and LinkInfo structs. The handshake from the JVM to JDK code is complicated and ill-documented. Let's simplify that also. If we regularize all BSM paths to use BootstrapCallInfo only, we will lose no generality or performance, and make the code easier to maintain and evolve. It will also be easier to evolve the JVM specification, with regard to bootstrap methods, if new behaviors can be expressed mainly at the JDK level, as the behaviors of the JDK processing BSCI instances. As part of this, let's remove unused JVM paths and data fields. For example, the method_type field associated with the appendix field of an indy or method handle call is unused and just adds complexity and footprint. Also, while we are simplifying the CP support for such call sites, we can rename them to be about BSMs rather than about indy and condy, and we can share more indy and condy code in common. Let's also move bootstrap argument processing from MethodHandleNatives to the pre-existing (low-level, privileged) ConstantPool class. That also unlocks the capability for BSMs to gain direct access to CP structures. Remove ConstantGroup; it was a bad idea. Instead, merge argument access into BootstrapCallInfo, back-ending to ConstantPool. Of course, the JVM should continue to pre-load argument lists. Adjust BSM argument access: remove copyArguments in favor of reusing the List.toArray protocol. Add an argumentRef API for direct access to BSM arguments in symbolic form. Also, add invocationTypeRef to support pre-resolved types (method and field), so that non-resolvable types can be processed. The Amber work has uncovered the need for new BSM modes which can omit metadata (lookup, name, type). Implement this as an open-ended "expression mode" to go with the legacy "push mode" and universal "BootstrapCallInfo" modes; this gives it some room to grow in the future. About half of this work is in the JVM, half in the lower levels of the JDK. New Java APIs can be rolled out over time, but need not be public at first. User-visible "expression mode" BSMs will be a feature of this work. Here's a prototype of these changes: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/jvm/JDK-8210685/
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