--- a/graal/com.oracle.graal.hotspot/src/com/oracle/graal/hotspot/HotSpotGraalRuntime.java	Tue Dec 11 08:29:25 2012 +0100
+++ b/graal/com.oracle.graal.hotspot/src/com/oracle/graal/hotspot/HotSpotGraalRuntime.java	Tue Dec 11 20:54:11 2012 +0100
@@ -60,6 +60,29 @@
     protected static void setInstance(HotSpotGraalRuntime runtime) {
         assert instance == null : "runtime already registered";
         instance = runtime;
+
+        // Do deferred initialization
+
+        // Proxies for the VM/Compiler interfaces cannot be initialized
+        // in the constructor as proxy creation causes static
+        // initializers to be executed for all the types involved in the
+        // proxied methods. Some of these static initializers (e.g. in
+        // HotSpotMethodData) rely on the above instance field being set
+        // to retrieve config details.
+        VMToCompiler toCompiler = runtime.vmToCompiler;
+        CompilerToVM toVM = runtime.compilerToVm;
+
+        if (CountingProxy.ENABLED) {
+            toCompiler = CountingProxy.getProxy(VMToCompiler.class, toCompiler);
+            toVM = CountingProxy.getProxy(CompilerToVM.class, toVM);
+        }
+        if (Logger.ENABLED) {
+            toCompiler = LoggingProxy.getProxy(VMToCompiler.class, toCompiler);
+            toVM = LoggingProxy.getProxy(CompilerToVM.class, toVM);
+        }
+
+        runtime.vmToCompiler = toCompiler;
+        runtime.compilerToVm = toVM;
     }
 
     private static Kind wordKind;
@@ -82,8 +105,8 @@
         return unsafe.getInt(address);
     }
 
-    protected final CompilerToVM compilerToVm;
-    protected final VMToCompiler vmToCompiler;
+    protected /*final*/ CompilerToVM compilerToVm;
+    protected /*final*/ VMToCompiler vmToCompiler;
 
     protected final HotSpotRuntime runtime;
     protected final GraalCompiler compiler;
@@ -100,17 +123,6 @@
         // initialize VmToCompiler
         VMToCompiler toCompiler = new VMToCompilerImpl(this);
 
-        // logging, etc.
-        if (CountingProxy.ENABLED) {
-            toCompiler = CountingProxy.getProxy(VMToCompiler.class, toCompiler);
-            toVM = CountingProxy.getProxy(CompilerToVM.class, toVM);
-        }
-        if (Logger.ENABLED) {
-            toCompiler = LoggingProxy.getProxy(VMToCompiler.class, toCompiler);
-            toVM = LoggingProxy.getProxy(CompilerToVM.class, toVM);
-        }
-
-        // set the final fields
         compilerToVm = toVM;
         vmToCompiler = toCompiler;
         config = new HotSpotVMConfig();