Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel, ahgross, rhalade

Reviewed-by: dholmes

8171194: Exception "Duplicate field name&signature in class file" should report the name and signature of the field
Summary: Added code to emit name and signature of duplicate field in java.lang.ClassFormatError exception message
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Reviewed-by: rprotacio

8042660: vm/mlvm/anonloader/stress/byteMutation failed with: assert(index >=0 && index < _length) failed: symbol index overflow
Summary: Detect zero length signatures and throw ClassFormatError before bad dereference occurs
Reviewed-by: hseigel

Reviewed-by: rprotacio

Reviewed-by: stuefe, coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, poonam

Summary: Correct fix for allowing BootstrapMethods attribute with an empty bootstrap_methods table.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ctornqvi, hseigel

Summary: Cleaned up CDS to be more configurable, maintainable and extensible
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn, mchung

Summary: Initialize host_klass while parsing the class with the other initializations.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, stefank

Reviewed-by: lfoltan

Summary: Add better checking for bad values.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, mschoene

Summary: Don't assert if one of classes in hierarhy was redefined
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Allow a BootstrapMethods attribute that contains an empty bootstrap_methods table where num_bootstrap_methods is equal to zero.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

Reviewed-by: mschoene, hseigel, lfoltan

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

Summary: Add classLoader to java/lang/Class instance for fast access
Reviewed-by: alanb, lfoltan, rriggs, vlivanov, twisti, jfranck

Summary: Keep class in CLD::_klasses list and mirror created for CDS classes if OOM during restore_shareable_info(). This keeps pointers consistent for CMS.
Reviewed-by: ehelin, stefank, jmasa, iklam

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

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

Summary: Improved the UnsupportedClassVersionError message to hopefully be more user friendly
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, twisti

8028553: The JVM should not throw VerifyError when 'overriding' a static final method in a superclass.
Summary: Check if method is static before throwing exception.
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp, lfoltan, fparain

Summary: Initialize host_klass while parsing the class with the other initializations.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, stefank

8031376: TraceClassLoading expects there to be a (Java) caller when you load a class with the bootstrap class loader
Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com

Summary: Exclude private methods when checking for final method override.
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp, dholmes, mseledtsov

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: twisti, iveresov

Reviewed-by: coleenp, bharadwaj, minqi

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

Reviewed-by: rbackman, twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

8023167: JVM allows duplicate Runtime[In]VisibleTypeAnnotations attributes in ClassFile/field_info/method_info structures
Summary: Add checks for duplicates and issue errors when detected.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Use the value returned by REALLOC_RESOURCE_ARRAY()
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ahgross

8021948: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature from Symbol* to constant pool indexes.
Summary: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature to u2 fields.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam