Summary: Initialize host_klass while parsing the class with the other initializations.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, stefank

Reviewed-by: lfoltan

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

Summary: Allow a BootstrapMethods attribute that contains an empty bootstrap_methods table where num_bootstrap_methods is equal to zero.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

Reviewed-by: mschoene, hseigel, lfoltan

Summary: checks that the attribute_length does not exceed the length of remaining data in the class file
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ahgross

Summary: Keep class in CLD::_klasses list and mirror created for CDS classes if OOM during restore_shareable_info(). This keeps pointers consistent for CMS.
Reviewed-by: ehelin, stefank, jmasa, iklam

Summary: Add check to prevent underflow
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ahgross

Summary: Add check to prevent underflow
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ahgross

Summary: Improved the UnsupportedClassVersionError message to hopefully be more user friendly
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, twisti

8028553: The JVM should not throw VerifyError when 'overriding' a static final method in a superclass.
Summary: Check if method is static before throwing exception.
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp, lfoltan, fparain

Summary: Exclude private methods when checking for final method override.
Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp, dholmes, mseledtsov

Summary: Need to process defaults for interfaces for invokespecial
Reviewed-by: lfoltan, hseigel, coleenp, jrose

Summary: New default methods list with inherited superinterface methods
Reviewed-by: minqi, sspitsyn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

Reviewed-by: coleenp, bharadwaj, minqi

Summary: Enhance method resolution and resulting data structures, plus some refactoring.
Reviewed-by: twisti, acorn, jrose

Reviewed-by: rbackman, twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

8023167: JVM allows duplicate Runtime[In]VisibleTypeAnnotations attributes in ClassFile/field_info/method_info structures
Summary: Add checks for duplicates and issue errors when detected.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, zgu

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Use the value returned by REALLOC_RESOURCE_ARRAY()
Reviewed-by: coleenp, ahgross

8021948: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature from Symbol* to constant pool indexes.
Summary: Change InstanceKlass::_source_file_name and _generic_signature to u2 fields.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, iklam

Summary: Use JvmtiCachedClassFileData.
Reviewed-by: iklam, sspitsyn, dcubed

Summary: Add private methods to final methods check
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, ahgross
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

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: field count handling fixed, has_nonstatic_fields invariant fixed, oop map overrun fixed; new asserts
Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed, 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: Treat the empty string as the default value tag
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

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

Summary: Remove support for parsing class files with four-byte flags fields in MethodParameters attributes
Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp

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

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: Put UseSplitVerifier option on the deprecated list.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kmo, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Store metadata on ClassFileParser instance to be cleaned up by destructor.  This enabled some refactoring of the enormous parseClassFile function.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, acorn

Summary: Disable @Contended support for static fields
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>