In afbd4ff, I made a low-risk, but very specific fix for a more
general problem: "bootstrap" classes (i.e. classes which the VM has
built-in knowledge of) need to be loaded from the classpath before any
of their methods are called. Based on recent testing, I found there were
more cases than I previously thought where the VM tries to call methods on
"unloaded" bootstrap classes, so we needed a more general solution to
the problem.
This commit addresses it by closing the last (known) loophole by which
methods might be called on bootstrap classes: invokeinterface, and its
helper method findInterfaceMethod. The fix is to check for bootstrap
classes in findInterfaceMethod and load the full versions if
necessary. This process may lead to garbage collection and/or thrown
exceptions, which made me nervous about cases of direct or indirect
calls to findInterfaceMethod not expecting those events, which is why
I hadn't used that approach earlier. However, it turns out there were
only a few places that made non-GC-safe calls to findInterfaceMethod,
and a bit of code rearrangement fixed that.
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