Summary: Use the anonymous class's host class for protected access checks
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, lfoltan

Summary: MagicLambdaImpl was removed from jdk side, this should be done in vm side too
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, rdurbin

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

8017571: JSR292: JVM crashing on assert "cast to instanceKlass" while producing MethodHandle for array methods with MethodHandle.findVirtual
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Using CHECK_NULL when calling multi_allocate() from the corresponding reflection code; added test for this condition
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi
Contributed-by: NMikhailo Seledtsov <mikhailo.seledtsov@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: stefank, rbackman
Contributed-by: NJoel Borggren-Franck <joel.franck@oracle.com>

Summary: This patch addresses an alignment trap due to the storage format of method parameters data in constMethod.  It also adds code to validate constant pool indexes for method parameters data.
Reviewed-by: jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Summary: Add hotspot support for parameter reflection
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp
Contributed-by: eric.mccorkle@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Add generic type analysis and default method selection algorithms
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Summary: In fieldDescriptor::generic_signature() returns NULL immediately if the field has no generic signature.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, jcoomes

7109878: The instanceKlass EnclosingMethhod attribute fields can be folded into the _inner_class field.
Summary: Fold instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_class_index and instanceKlass::_enclosing_method_method_index into the instanceKlass::_inner_classes array.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, stefank, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Put generated MH adapter in InvokeDynamic/MethodHandle classes to be able to indentify them easily in the compiler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: low-level privileged sun.misc.Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Protected contraints should only be applied if member is not static
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Summary: Use instanceKlass::method_with_idnum() instead of slot() to work with RedefineClasses().
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn