--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/interpreter/interpreter.cpp	Wed Oct 21 13:46:25 2015 +0000
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/interpreter/interpreter.cpp	Fri Oct 23 16:48:38 2015 -0400
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
 
 // Return true if the interpreter can prove that the given bytecode has
 // not yet been executed (in Java semantics, not in actual operation).
-bool AbstractInterpreter::is_not_reached(methodHandle method, int bci) {
+bool AbstractInterpreter::is_not_reached(const methodHandle& method, int bci) {
   Bytecodes::Code code = method()->code_at(bci);
 
   if (!Bytecodes::must_rewrite(code)) {