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Convert block-pass arguments in the direct keyword call path - #9840
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compileCallWithKeywords pushed a block-pass argument, like &:to_s or &pr, as the raw object and passed it where the call site expects a Block. The JVM rejected the class with VerifyError: Bad type on operand stack, so any method with a call like IO.popen(cmd, err: [:child, :out], &:read) stayed interpreted. Convert the argument with getBlockFromObject, as the normal call path does. That also handles the method's own block, which is already a Block. Fixes jruby#9820
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Likely a change made to block pass conversion sometime after keywords were pulled out as a separate piece of logic. The IR has gone through some changes that likely removed an implicit block conversion call and this branch was never updated.
Can't currently track down exactly why this is doing the wrong thing, but it's a simple fix and looks good.
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Fixes #9820.
The direct keyword-argument path in
compileCallWithKeywordspushed a block-pass argument, like&:reador&pr, as the raw object, and then told the call site it was aBlock. The JVM rejected the class withVerifyError: Bad type on operand stack, so any method containing a call likeIO.popen(cmd, err: [:child, :out], &:read)stayed interpreted.The argument is now converted with
getBlockFromObject, which is what the normal call path does. That handles symbols, procs, method objects andnil, and passes the method's own block through unchanged, which is whyfoo(a: 1, &block)already worked.This was the most common failure in the compile check from #9821: 96 methods and blocks in the stdlib, ruby/spec and the MRI tests, including
Bundler::GemHelper#sh_with_status. After this change, the stdlib has none left.The new spec passes a symbol, a proc,
niland a method object alongside keyword arguments, with and without positional arguments and inside a block, and checks that each block actually reaches the method. It fails in JIT mode before this change and passes in all four modes after it. I also checked the forms from the issue with the real JIT, and they compile and give the same results as CRuby.