On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:54:14 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> A previous cleanup #14642 accidentally omitted the fact that an
>> `Array.newInstance` call in `BytecodeDescriptor::parseSig` is intended to
>> propagate `IllegalArgumentException` to
>> `MethodType::fromMethodDescriptorString`. This bug is discovered in a recent
>> cleanup for `BytecodeDescriptor` in #24978.
>>
>> Instead of restoring the original `newInstance` call, this patch catches the
>> `UnsupportedOperationException` thrown by `Class::arrayType` to because the
>> cause IAE thrown by `newInstance` has no message at all. The existing
>> reporting system in `BytecodeDescriptor::parseMethod` includes the whole
>> malformed descriptor string in the error message, which can be triggered by
>> returning `null` in `parseSig`.
>
> Chen Liang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
> commit since the last revision:
>
> A case for malformed return type
test/jdk/java/lang/invoke/MethodTypeTest.java line 233:
> 231: "(java/lang/Object)V",
> 232: "()java/lang/Object",
> 233: };
And maybe also add a test case for an array type with too many dimensions in
the return type:
Suggestion:
"()java/lang/Object",
"()" + "[".repeat(256) + "Ljava/lang/Object;",
};
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26909#discussion_r2298665463
