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

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

Summary: Adjust instruction generation.
Reviewed-by: goetz
Contributed-by: gromero@linux.vnet.ibm.com, horii@jp.ibm.com

Summary: MetadataOnStackMark must be done before calling free_deallocate_list().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Typo error referring new_acitve_workers is corrected as new_active_workers
Reviewed-by: jmasa, drwhite
Contributed-by: fairoz.matte@oracle.com