--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/interpreter/abstractInterpreter.cpp	Thu Jul 27 15:36:15 2017 +0200
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/interpreter/abstractInterpreter.cpp	Thu Jul 27 18:06:41 2017 -0400
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Entry points
 
-AbstractInterpreter::MethodKind AbstractInterpreter::method_kind(methodHandle m) {
+AbstractInterpreter::MethodKind AbstractInterpreter::method_kind(const methodHandle& m) {
   // Abstract method?
   if (m->is_abstract()) return abstract;