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    • Status: Closed
    • P4
    • Resolution: Duplicate
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    • tbd_major
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      Consider adding a selection of commonly useful bootstrap methods for returning constant values, such as for:

      - loading a primitive class (e.g. int.class)

      - loading a primitive value smaller that int (boolean, byte, char and short)

      - loading a default value of a given type (null, zero, value-type default)

      - loading a named (static final) constant from a class, or (as a special case) an enum member

      - loading a regex Pattern

      - loading a VarHandle

      - loading a value returned from a factory method or perhaps invokers that are method handle based (so a resulting method handle from a combinatorial operation or a transformation is a constant).

      - as a special case of factories, computing List.of, Map.of, Set.of on a list of constants


      Certain bootstrap methods may be required for the constant folding language and intrinsic support for ldc and invokedynamic (see JDK-8178320).

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              psandoz Paul Sandoz
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