Summary: With NPG, const KlassOop klass which is in fact a definition converted to Klass* const, which is not the original intention. The right usage is converting them to const Klass*.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

8013648: Guarantee(VerifyBeforeGC || VerifyDuringGC || VerifyBeforeExit || VerifyAfterGC) failed: too expensive
Summary: Fix code to call correct version of function find_class().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rdurbin, dcubed

Reviewed-by: acorn, sla

Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed

Summary: Instead of terminating the VM, throw OutOfMemoryError exceptions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: Remove support for parsing class files with four-byte flags fields in MethodParameters attributes
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp

Summary: Call this function from the ClassLoaderData destructor instead of the system dictionary walk.
Reviewed-by: stefank, mgerdin

Summary: Move initialization of dependencies to before allocation of CLD
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Summary: USe err_msg() to create a proper assertion message.
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp, iklam

Summary: anti-delta fix for 8010992 until 8012902 can be fixed
Reviewed-by: acorn, minqi, rdurbin

Summary: Lazily create and maintain the MemberNameTable to be able to update MemberName's
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: disable use of global operator new and new[] which could cause unexpected exception and escape from NMT tracking.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Lambda changes; spec 0.6.2 - Allow static invokestatic and invokespecial calls to InterfaceMethod_ref
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, kmo, shade

Summary: remove JPRT debug builds, remove -DDEBUG -DFASTDEBUG and use ASSERT instead in sources
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Refactor the CLD dependency list into a separate class. Use an ObjectLocker to synchronize additions to the CLD dependency list.
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

8011671: JCK tests on static interface methods fail under b84: Illegal type at constant pool entry 5
Summary: Restore incorrect removal of support for static interface method verification in Java 8
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Add convenience method in StringTable, add WhiteBox method and simple sanity test
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, zgu
Contributed-by: leonid.mesnik@oracle.com

Summary: Avoid holding SystemDictionary_lock while calling Klass::remove_unshareable_info
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

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

Summary: Put UseSplitVerifier option on the deprecated list.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kmo, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove support for verification of class files with version 52 and above from type inference verifier.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel

8010667: Non-zero padding is not allowed in splitverifier for tableswitch/lookupswitch instructions.
Summary: Don't check the padding bits if class file version is >= 51.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: add guarantee() to disqualify_method()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Check for exception during SystemDictionary::resolve_instance_class_or_null() and clean up.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, hseigel, minqi
Contributed-by: ioi.lam@oracle.com

Summary: Store metadata on ClassFileParser instance to be cleaned up by destructor.  This enabled some refactoring of the enormous parseClassFile function.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, acorn

Summary: -Xshare:dump was creating a Symbol in C_heap.  There's an assert there that jdk jprt wasn't hitting because it was only done in product
Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel, iklam

Summary: Disable @Contended support for static fields
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: SystemDictionary::find(...) should not create and register ClassLoaderData objects for class loaders.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn
Contributed-by: NStefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin <erik.helin@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp

Summary: Restructure initialization of ClassLoaderData to not add a new instance if init_dependencies fail
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, johnc

Summary: allocate method annotations and attach to ConstMethod if present
Reviewed-by: dcubed, jiangli, sspitsyn, iklam

Summary: Perform verification during VM startup under control of new flag and within a VMOperation.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, brutisso

Summary: Fix off-by-one error
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

8006907: Hotspot should reject classfiles with multiple MethodParameters attributes
Summary: Update to Hotspot's processing of MethodParameters attributes in classfiles
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose