Summary: Make sure serial gc compacts heap every time
Reviewed-by: mchung, brutisso, nloodin

Summary: Catch OutOfMemoryError in reference handler thread if caused by allocation of an InterruptedException
Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb

Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: alanb, mduigou, dholmes

Reviewed-by: alanb, lancea

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes, chegar

Summary: cache a copy of the char[] to use with toString() and clear it when ever the sb content is modified
Reviewed-by: alanb, plevart, mduigou, forax

Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: darcy, abuckley

Reviewed-by: mchung, mduigou, tbell, dsamersoff

6980985: java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/ResetPeakMemoryUsage is not robust when getMax() returns -1
7181907: TEST_BUG: j/l/management/MemoryMXBean/ResetPeakMemoryUsage fails with NegativeArraySizeException
7148492: java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/ResetPeakMemoryUsage.java failing since update to hs23-b15 or b16
Reviewed-by: mchung, brutisso

Reviewed-by: martin, alanb, ulfzibis, mduigou
Contributed-by: NStuart Marks &lt;stuart.marks@oracle.com&gt;, Henry Jen <henry.jen@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb

Reviewed-by: alanb, jrose, jdn

Summary: Add code to annotated methods and command line flags to the tests to verify bug above
Reviewed-by: acorn, sspitsyn, dcubed, dholmes, alanb

Reviewed-by: iris, mduigou, jjg

8008941: isSynthetic() returns false for lambda instances
Reviewed-by: mduigou

6992705: Include modifiers in Class.toGenericString()
Summary: Class.toGenericString and supporting changes; additional reviews by Peter Levart
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: lancea
Contributed-by: NJim Gish <jim.gish@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: mduigou

Reviewed-by: mduigou

7172553: A utility class that forms the basis of a String.join() operation
Summary: Integrate StringJoiner changes from lambda
Reviewed-by: alanb, mduigou

Reviewed-by: alanb, dholmes

Summary: Fix and optimize codePointAt, codePointBefore and similar methods
Reviewed-by: sherman, okutsu, ulfzibis, kizune

Reviewed-by: chegar

8009222: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: not invocable, no method type when attempting to get getter method handle for a static field
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Reviewed-by: jjg

Summary: current thread's context ClassLoader was used to load class by name, pass class not name in serialization (Thank you Peter Levart for test and prototype. Thank you Sundar and Peter for unofficial reviews)
Reviewed-by: forax

7087570: java.lang.invoke.MemberName information wrong for method handles created with findConstructor
Summary: REF_invokeSpecial DMHs (which are unusual) get marked explicitly; tweak the MHI to use this bit
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

8008793: SecurityManager.checkXXX behavior not specified for methods that check AWTPermission and AWT not present
Reviewed-by: hawtin, mullan, dsamersoff, mchung

Summary: run in /othervm mode
Reviewed-by: ksrini

Summary: Use more portable pattern counting constructs in test driver.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, sla, coleenp

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: forax

8007935: java/lang/instrument/RedefineSubclassWithTwoInterfaces.sh should use $COMPILEJAVA for javac
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, alanb

Reviewed-by: darcy, abuckley

Summary: Adds additional functional interfaces for primitives and "Bi" (two operand). Adds utility extension methods. Includes some name changes for existing functional interfaces per EG decisions.
Reviewed-by: briangoetz, darcy, chegar, dholmes

Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: emc