Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Summary: Check bytecode versions along with RelaxAccessControlCheck version
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: The InstanceKlass _initial_method_idnum value must be adjusted if overpass methods are added.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: field count handling fixed, has_nonstatic_fields invariant fixed, oop map overrun fixed; new asserts
Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed, coleenp

Summary: Combine the calls to StringTable::unlink and StringTable::oops_do in Parallel Scavenge.
Reviewed-by: pliden, coleenp

Summary: The string in StringTable is not used by CDS anymore. Remove the unnecessary code in preparation for 8015422: Large performance hit when the StringTable is walked twice in Parallel Scavenge
Reviewed-by: pliden, tschatzl, coleenp

Summary: Inject protection_domain, signers, init_lock into java_lang_Class
Reviewed-by: stefank, dholmes, sla

Summary: Restrict reference of interface methods by invokestatic and invokespecial to classfile version 52 or later.
Reviewed-by: kvn, hseigel

Summary: rename/remove local variables, re-arrange instance_size calculation, more comments.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

Summary: Added info for the string/symbol objects and the hash entries
Reviewed-by: coleenp, rbackman

Summary: Treat the empty string as the default value tag
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Fix instance_size miscalculation.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: The fix of 8010992, disable use of global operator new and new[] which caused failure on some tests. This takes two of the bugs also add ALLOW_OPERATOR_NEW_USAGE to prevent crash for third party code calling operator new of jvm on certain platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Remove obsolete debugging code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Need to walk array class vtables replacing old methods too if j.l.o redefined
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, ctornqvi

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

Summary: Resurrected autobox elimination code and enabled part of it by default.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

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: Some #ifndef PRODUCT should be #ifdef ASSERT
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Ngdub <duboscq@ssw.jku.at>

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