Summary: Guarantee is to ensure classloader is a valid oop will help catch the errors at an early stage rather than crashing the JVM later on in the GC
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

8036630: Null ProtectionDomain in JVM can cause NPE because principals field is not initialized to an empty array
Summary: Call ProtectionDomain constructor instead of making all fields null.
Reviewed-by: fparain, zgu

Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: stuefe, coleenp, roland

Summary: for fixing a truncation problem on the output from -XX:+TraceClassPaths
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jiangli, cjplummer, minqi

Summary: Remove ResourceMark in StackMapReader::parse_verification_type() to avoid freeing of error message.
Reviewed-by: zmajo, dcubed, hseigel

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Optimize the method pointer adjustments for prev klass versions and MNT
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jrose, ahgross, alanb, bmoloden

Reviewed-by: jrose, ahgross, alanb, bmoloden

Summary: For *store bytecodes, compare incoming, not outgoing, type state with exception handlers' stack maps.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes

8046246: the constantPoolCacheOopDesc::adjust_method_entries() used in RedefineClasses does not scale
Summary: optimize the adjust_method_entries functions by using the orig_method_idnum() function
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: use method cpref and klass version to provide meaningful methods name in stacktraces
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

8072863: Replace fatal() with vm_exit_during_initialization() when an incorrect class is found on the bootclasspath
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: NCheleswer Sahu <cheleswer.sahu@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, stefank

Reviewed-by: hseigel, lfoltan, coleenp, ahgross

Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, poonam

Summary: note all MemberNames created on internal list for adjusting method entries.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed, lfoltan

Reviewed-by: sla, stefank

Summary: use correct CHECK macro in call to load_class()
Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, gziemski

Summary: Change CDS non-fatal preloading errors to warnings.
Reviewed-by: minqi, mseledtsov, coleenp

Summary: Added API to track bootclasspath modification
Reviewed-by: jiangli, dholmes, minqi

Summary: Throw VerifyError for illegal accesses
Reviewed-by: acorn, ahgross, coleenp

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, coleenp, bdelsart

Summary: Implemented the interface in sun.misc.URLClassPath and corresponding JVM_XXX APIs
Reviewed-by: mchung, acorn, jiangli, dholmes

8058536: java/lang/instrument/NativeMethodPrefixAgent.java fails due to VirtualMachineError: out of space in CodeCache for method handle intrinsic
Summary: Make sure MH intrinsics can be created before compiler instances
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: mchung, dfuchs, ahgross, jmasa, brutisso, mgerdin
Contributed-by: kim.barrett@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: mchung, dfuchs, ahgross, jmasa, brutisso, mgerdin
Contributed-by: kim.barrett@oracle.com

Summary: ClassLoader for array klass set to null and not the class loader of the component type.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ctornqvi

Reviewed-by: brutisso, mgerdin, tschatzl

Reviewed-by: gziemski, jmasa, brutisso, coleenp, tschatzl

Summary: Add intrinsics for BigInteger squareToLen and mulAdd methods.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, sla

Summary: Remove check that causes the VerifyError
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, acorn

Summary: Parse catch clause paths to ensure they end in throws
Reviewed-by: dlong, acorn, kamg, ctornqvi, lfoltan

Summary: Add checksum verification.
Reviewed-by: iklam, dholmes, mschoene