Reviewed-by: psandoz

Reviewed-by: psandoz, jrose

Reviewed-by: briangoetz, jjg

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, jrose, psandoz
Contributed-by: tobias.hartmann@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

8034120: MethodHandles.catchException doesn't handle VarargsCollector right
Reviewed-by: lagergren, psandoz, jrose

Reviewed-by: ahgross, briangoetz, dlsmith

8031050: (thread) Change Thread initialization so that thread name is set before invoking SecurityManager
Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes, mchung

Reviewed-by: jrose, vlivanov, ahgross

Reviewed-by: ahgross, briangoetz, dlsmith, rfield
Contributed-by: daniel.smith@oracle.com

8032704: Issues with lib perm in Lambda
Reviewed-by: jrose, ahgross, briangoetz

8031502: JSR292: IncompatibleClassChangeError in LambdaForm for CharSequence.toString() method handle type converter
Reviewed-by: sundar, lagergren, drchase

Summary: updated files with 2011, 2012 and 2013 years according to the file's last updated date
Reviewed-by: tbell, lancea, chegar

Summary: make defensive copy of a varargs array
Reviewed-by: mchung, twisti, ahgross

Reviewed-by: smarks, jfranck, abuckley

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: mduigou, smarks
Contributed-by: bitterfoxc@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: alanb, darcy, mduigou

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bchristi, alanb, lancea

Reviewed-by: darcy

Summary: to undo the change for 6559590
Reviewed-by: darcy

8028021: @since 1.8 missing for certain methods in java.lang.reflect.Method in generated api docs
Summary: two documentation fixes
Reviewed-by: darcy

6559590: Pattern.compile(".*").split("") returns incorrect result
Summary: updated spec/impl for these two corner cases
Reviewed-by: alanb, psandoz

Reviewed-by: chegar, forax, lancea, alanb, jfranck

Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Replaced incorrect description with reference to the serialization specification
Reviewed-by: alanb, smarks

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes, mr, plevart, psandoz

8027232: Update j.l.invoke code generating class files to use ASM enhancements for invocation of non-abstract methods on ifaces
Reviewed-by: ksrini, rfield
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com

Summary: Better interpreted and compiled performance of operations in MethodType important to LambdaMetafactory.
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, mchung
Contributed-by: sergey.kuksenko@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: briangoetz, rfield
Contributed-by: sergey.kuksenko@oracle.com

8023984: Lambda linkage performance - use a method ref to a static factory instead of a ctor ref
Reviewed-by: briangoetz, rfield
Contributed-by: sergey.kuksenko@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jfranck, plevart, mchung, abuckley, sogoel

8027318: Lambda Metafactory: generate serialization-hostile read/writeObject methods for non-serializable lambdas
Reviewed-by: rfield, psandoz

Reviewed-by: alexsch, smarks

Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar

Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar

Reviewed-by: iveresov, jrose

8023651: j.l.r.Constructor.getAnnotatedReceiverType() and j.l.r.Constructor.getAnnotatedReturnType() for inner classes return incorrect result
Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: briangoetz, rfield
Contributed-by: dan.smith@oracle.com