Summary: small code improvements for increased robustness
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: michael.haupt@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, ahgross, acorn, vlivanov

Summary: Fix method searches to handle static, private instance and overpass
Reviewed-by: acorn

Reviewed-by: iklam, acorn, mschoene

Reviewed-by: iklam, acorn, mschoene

8046246: the constantPoolCacheOopDesc::adjust_method_entries() used in RedefineClasses does not scale
Summary: optimize the adjust_method_entries functions by using the orig_method_idnum() function
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan, coleenp, ahgross

8043029: Change 8037816 breaks HS build with older GCC versions which don't support diagnostic pragmas
8043164: Format warning in traceStream.hpp
Summary: Backport of main fix + two corrections, enables clang compilation, turns on format attributes, corrects/mutes warnings
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, iveresov, twisti

Summary: Handle package private case
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, jdn

8033150: invokestatic: IncompatibleClassChangeError trying to invoke static method from a parent in presence of conflicting defaults.
Summary: A static method should be preferred during method resolution over an overpass, search the current class as well as its superclasses.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, kamg

Reviewed-by: andrew
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

8226798: JVM crash in klassItable::initialize_itable_for_interface(int, InstanceKlass*, bool, Thread*)
Summary: When calculating vtable size at class load time, do not look for miranda method if matching package private method is found in a super class.
Reviewed-by: acorn, lfoltan

Summary: Create AME overpass methods and fix method search logic
Reviewed-by: kamg, acorn, lfoltan, coleenp

Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan, coleenp

Summary: Catch missing-because-illegal case for itable entries and use an exception-throwing method instead of null.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp

Summary: Need to process defaults for interfaces for invokespecial
Reviewed-by: lfoltan, hseigel, coleenp, jrose

Summary: New default methods list with inherited superinterface methods
Reviewed-by: minqi, sspitsyn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, bharadwaj, minqi

Summary: Enhance method resolution and resulting data structures, plus some refactoring.
Reviewed-by: twisti, acorn, jrose

Summary: Do not treat static methods as miranda methods.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: Fix text, overwritten type and holder for resolved method
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed, minqi, dholmes

Summary: Add/refine new tracing support using -XX:TraceRedefineClasses=16384.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, sspitsyn

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Add generic type analysis and default method selection algorithms
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

Summary: Make CDS reorder vtables so that dump time vtables match run time order, so when redefine classes reinitializes them, they aren't in the wrong order.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Summary: Only call <clinit> with ACC_STATIC for classfiles with version > 50
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Removed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Summary: hotspot should check protection attribute besides the name and signature of the method when constructing vtable.
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, apetrusenko, never, dcubed

Reviewed-by: pbk, kvn

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Remove incorrect optimization in klassItable::adjust_method_entries(). Add RedefineClasses() tracing support for obsolete method entry.
Reviewed-by: acorn, swamyv