Reviewed-by: jcoomes

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

Summary: Don't throw VerifyError if method is NULL.
Reviewed-by: acorn, lfoltan, mschoene

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Don't throw VerifyError if method is NULL.
Reviewed-by: acorn, lfoltan, mschoene

8042603: 'SafepointPollOffset' was not declared in static member function 'static bool Arguments::check_vm_args_consistency()'
Reviewed-by: kvn

8036156: Limit default method hierarchy
Summary: Fix protected access checks
Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, acorn, ahgross

Summary: Improve protection domain check in forName()
Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn, jdn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, ehelin

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

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: Check for overflow cases in range checks and collapse it if we can.
Reviewed-by: jrose, iveresov