Reviewed-by: kvn, ahgross

Summary: Correct handling of array of primitive type qualifiers during field and method resolution.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, ahgross

Summary: Check for null method
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, mschoene

Reviewed-by: mschoene, hseigel, lfoltan

Summary: Fix events log string.
Reviewed-by: kvn, mschoene

Summary: checks that the attribute_length does not exceed the length of remaining data in the class file
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ahgross

Summary: Prevent ctor calls to super() and this() from avoidable code (try blocks, if stmts, etc.)
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, mschoene

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

Summary: Add check to prevent underflow
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ahgross

Summary: added missing check for loop padding case.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Add check to prevent underflow
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ahgross

Summary: Add length checks where necessary
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mschoene

Summary: Switch off EliminateAutoBox flag by default in jdk8 release.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Reviewed-by: jrose, acorn, hseigel, lfoltan

8031059: invokestatic: ICCE trying to invoke static method when it clashes with an abstract method inherited from an interface
Summary: Do not create AME overpass if there is a matching static method
Reviewed-by: lfoltan, coleenp, kamg

Summary: Just read the source element once
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ahgross

Summary: Copyright year updated for files modified during 2013
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

Summary: A method with no declared methods was getting an AME overpass method with the latest change.  The method_ordering array was not updated for the new methods.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn, dsamersoff, lfoltan, hseigel

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

Summary: no call to SystemDictionary::notice_modification() when class is defined through Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass() can caused missed dependency change.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: replace test condition with reference to the proper predicate, encode folk wisdom into an assert
Reviewed-by: twisti, coleenp

Summary: JFR needs this fix to run on PPC
Reviewed-by: sla, mikael

Summary: Implementation of JDK 8 JVMS 5.4.3.4 specification change to skip static and non-public methods of java.lang.Object for interface method resolution.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

8029106: JVM crashes in Metachunk::Metachunk during parallel class redefinition (PrivateMLetController, anonymous-simple_copy_1)
Summary: Fixed overflow bug in VirtualSpaceNode::is_available
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, brutisso, coleenp, jmasa

Summary: Reducing the number of calls to follow_class_loader to speed up the marking phase. Also removed some unnecessary calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, mgerdin

Reviewed-by: brutisso, jmasa, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: check the state of caller and callee nmethods and skip call site patching if any of them is not alive
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

8029415: java/lang/reflect/Method/invoke/TestPrivateInterfaceMethodReflect.java fails on all platforms with hs25-b61
Summary: Check first that a class is not a dynamically-generated bytecode associated with 1.4 reflection implementation, to emitting an ICCE of an invokespecial IMR of a method in an indirect superinterface.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: update MemberName.clazz correctly in MemberName.resolve; also pass lookupClass to MethodHandles::resolve_MemberName
Reviewed-by: acorn, vlivanov

Summary: Use the anonymous class's host class for protected access checks
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, lfoltan

8028126: nsk/jvmti/scenarios/hotswap/HS101/hs101t006 Crashed the vm on Solaris-sparc64 fastdebug builds: only current thread can flush its registers
Summary: Fix a race between VMOp_GetCurrentLocation reaching a safepoint and arget thread exiting from Java execution
Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes, dsamersoff
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan, coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, hseigel

Summary: fix code to allow testing on Fujitsu Sparc64 CPUs
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Add verification to check that invokespecial of an InterfaceMethodref names a method in a direct superinterface of the current class or interface in accordance with JSR 335, JVMS 4.9.2 Structural Constraints.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, coleenp
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: Reduced the number of calls to follow_class_loader and instead marked and pushed the klass holder directly. Also removed unneeded calls to adjust_klass.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, mgerdin, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: dholmes, egahlin