--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/oops/method.hpp	Thu Oct 04 14:55:57 2012 +0200
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/oops/method.hpp	Tue Nov 06 15:09:37 2012 -0500
@@ -209,21 +209,21 @@
 
   // annotations support
   AnnotationArray* annotations() const           {
-    InstanceKlass* ik = InstanceKlass::cast(method_holder());
+    InstanceKlass* ik = method_holder();
     if (ik->annotations() == NULL) {
       return NULL;
     }
     return ik->annotations()->get_method_annotations_of(method_idnum());
   }
   AnnotationArray* parameter_annotations() const {
-    InstanceKlass* ik = InstanceKlass::cast(method_holder());
+    InstanceKlass* ik = method_holder();
     if (ik->annotations() == NULL) {
       return NULL;
     }
     return ik->annotations()->get_method_parameter_annotations_of(method_idnum());
   }
   AnnotationArray* annotation_default() const    {
-    InstanceKlass* ik = InstanceKlass::cast(method_holder());
+    InstanceKlass* ik = method_holder();
     if (ik->annotations() == NULL) {
       return NULL;
     }
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@
                        { return constMethod()->compressed_linenumber_table(); }
 
   // method holder (the Klass* holding this method)
-  Klass* method_holder() const                 { return constants()->pool_holder(); }
+  InstanceKlass* method_holder() const         { return constants()->pool_holder(); }
 
   void compute_size_of_parameters(Thread *thread); // word size of parameters (receiver if any + arguments)
   Symbol* klass_name() const;                    // returns the name of the method holder
@@ -697,18 +697,18 @@
 
   // Get this method's jmethodID -- allocate if it doesn't exist
   jmethodID jmethod_id()                            { methodHandle this_h(this);
-                                                      return InstanceKlass::get_jmethod_id(InstanceKlass::cast(method_holder()), this_h); }
+                                                      return InstanceKlass::get_jmethod_id(method_holder(), this_h); }
 
   // Lookup the jmethodID for this method.  Return NULL if not found.
   // NOTE that this function can be called from a signal handler
   // (see AsyncGetCallTrace support for Forte Analyzer) and this
   // needs to be async-safe. No allocation should be done and
   // so handles are not used to avoid deadlock.
-  jmethodID find_jmethod_id_or_null()               { return InstanceKlass::cast(method_holder())->jmethod_id_or_null(this); }
+  jmethodID find_jmethod_id_or_null()               { return method_holder()->jmethod_id_or_null(this); }
 
   // JNI static invoke cached itable index accessors
-  int cached_itable_index()                         { return InstanceKlass::cast(method_holder())->cached_itable_index(method_idnum()); }
-  void set_cached_itable_index(int index)           { InstanceKlass::cast(method_holder())->set_cached_itable_index(method_idnum(), index); }
+  int cached_itable_index()                         { return method_holder()->cached_itable_index(method_idnum()); }
+  void set_cached_itable_index(int index)           { method_holder()->set_cached_itable_index(method_idnum(), index); }
 
   // Support for inlining of intrinsic methods
   vmIntrinsics::ID intrinsic_id() const          { return (vmIntrinsics::ID) _intrinsic_id;           }
@@ -734,11 +734,11 @@
 
   // On-stack replacement support
   bool has_osr_nmethod(int level, bool match_level) {
-   return InstanceKlass::cast(method_holder())->lookup_osr_nmethod(this, InvocationEntryBci, level, match_level) != NULL;
+   return method_holder()->lookup_osr_nmethod(this, InvocationEntryBci, level, match_level) != NULL;
   }
 
   nmethod* lookup_osr_nmethod_for(int bci, int level, bool match_level) {
-    return InstanceKlass::cast(method_holder())->lookup_osr_nmethod(this, bci, level, match_level);
+    return method_holder()->lookup_osr_nmethod(this, bci, level, match_level);
   }
 
   // Inline cache support