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: jbachorik, egahlin, ykantser, mtobiass

Reviewed-by: pliden, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: acorn, mschoene
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jrose, hseigel, vlivanov, bmoloden, ctornqvi, mschoene

Reviewed-by: rprotacio

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NXiang Yuan &lt;xiang.yuan@linaro.org&gt;, Zoltan Majo <zoltan.majo@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: pliden

Summary: Need to specify /othervm in annotation section if jvm command line option -Xbatch is specified.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Correct backport of 8159244.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed string comparison and indentation
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: gthornbr, hseigel, mschoene
Contributed-by: gerard.ziemski@oracle.com

Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping.
Reviewed-by: kvn