File: applyonapply.js

var sort = Array.prototype.sort;
var sorted = Function.prototype.apply.apply(sort, [[4, 3, 89, 7]]);
print(sorted);

Expected: 3,4,7,89 ( - works fine on jdk8 and jdk8u)

Stack trace with jdk9 is as follows:

jjs -doe applyonapply.js

applyonapppply.js:2 TypeError: [Ljava.lang.Object;@1f95560 is not an Object
applyonapppply.js:2 TypeError: [Ljava.lang.Object;@1f95560 is not an Object
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ECMAErrors.error(ECMAErrors.java:58)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ECMAErrors.typeError(ECMAErrors.java:214)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ECMAErrors.typeError(ECMAErrors.java:186)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ECMAErrors.typeError(ECMAErrors.java:173)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.NativeArray.sort(NativeArray.java:1152)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.scripts.Script$Recompilation$2$applyonapppply$cu2$restOf.:program(applyonapppply.js:2)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunctionData.invoke(ScriptFunctionData.java:567)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunction.invoke(ScriptFunction.java:221)
at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptRuntime.apply(ScriptRuntime.java:374)
at jdk.nashorn.tools.Shell.apply(Shell.java:391)
at jdk.nashorn.tools.Shell.runScripts(Shell.java:320)
at jdk.nashorn.tools.Shell.run(Shell.java:169)
at jdk.nashorn.tools.Shell.main(Shell.java:133)
at jdk.nashorn.tools.Shell.main(Shell.java:112)