diff -r 01b172b8cd7c -r e0ba4e04c839 src/share/vm/oops/methodOop.cpp
--- a/src/share/vm/oops/methodOop.cpp	Fri Jul 16 08:29:42 2010 -0700
+++ b/src/share/vm/oops/methodOop.cpp	Fri Jul 16 18:14:19 2010 -0700
@@ -851,9 +851,15 @@
 // MethodHandleCompiler.
 // Must be consistent with MethodHandleCompiler::get_method_oop().
 bool methodOopDesc::is_method_handle_adapter() const {
-  return (is_method_handle_invoke_name(name()) &&
-          is_synthetic() &&
-          MethodHandleCompiler::klass_is_method_handle_adapter_holder(method_holder()));
+  if (is_synthetic() &&
+      !is_native() &&   // has code from MethodHandleCompiler
+      is_method_handle_invoke_name(name()) &&
+      MethodHandleCompiler::klass_is_method_handle_adapter_holder(method_holder())) {
+    assert(!is_method_handle_invoke(), "disjoint");
+    return true;
+  } else {
+    return false;
+  }
 }
 
 methodHandle methodOopDesc::make_invoke_method(KlassHandle holder,