--- a/hotspot/src/cpu/sparc/vm/interpreterRT_sparc.hpp	Thu Jul 27 15:36:15 2017 +0200
+++ b/hotspot/src/cpu/sparc/vm/interpreterRT_sparc.hpp	Thu Jul 27 18:06:41 2017 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 
  public:
   // Creation
-  SignatureHandlerGenerator(methodHandle method, CodeBuffer* buffer) : NativeSignatureIterator(method) {
+  SignatureHandlerGenerator(const methodHandle& method, CodeBuffer* buffer) : NativeSignatureIterator(method) {
     _masm = new MacroAssembler(buffer);
   }