Reviewed-by: jrose, alanb, twisti

7185456: (ann) Optimize Annotation handling in java/sun.reflect.* code for small number of annotations
Reviewed-by: mduigou, jfranck

Reviewed-by: jfranck

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: darcy, abuckley

Reviewed-by: jdn, mchung

Reviewed-by: chegar, jfranck

8004919: AnnotationSupport uses possibly half-constructed AnnotationType instances
Summary: Implements the simplified semantics for repeating annotations and removes the incorrect obtaining of an AnnotationType
Reviewed-by: darcy, abuckley

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: alanb, ahgross

Reviewed-by: jjg, darcy

Reviewed-by: chegar, alanb
Contributed-by: peter.levart@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: alanb, jdn, jrose

Reviewed-by: chegar, ksrini

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes, dsamersoff, sspitsyn, psandoz

Reviewed-by: mcimadamore

Summary: to use new InternalError constructor with cause chainning
Reviewed-by: alanb, ksrini, xuelei, neugens
Contributed-by: sebastian.sickelmann@gmx.de

Reviewed-by: alanb

6832374: (reflect) malformed signature can cause parser to go into infinite loop
7052898: (reflect) SignatureParser will accept strings outside of the grammar
Summary: Various signature parsing fixes; additional review by sonali.goel@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: darcy
Contributed-by: nsebastian.sickelmann@gmx.de

Reviewed-by: darcy
Contributed-by: alexandre.boulgakov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: darcy
Contributed-by: alexandre.boulgakov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: darcy, weijun

Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: mullan, xuelei

Summary: Remove the static EMPTY_ANNOTATION_ARRAY field; add AnnotationParser.toArray method
Reviewed-by: darcy

Summary: Move call to getDeclaredMethods inside doPrivileged
Reviewed-by: darcy, mullan
Contributed-by: jjb@google.com

Summary: Update for files that have been modified starting July 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Reviewed-by: darcy

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

Reviewed-by: alanb, iris, lmalvent, bristor, peterjones, darcy, wetmore