Reviewed-by: alanb, allwin, sspitsyn, mgronlun

8028055: (reflect) invoking Method/Constructor in anonymous classes breaks with -Dsun.reflect.noInflation=true
Reviewed-by: briangoetz

Reviewed-by: anthony, serb

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, martin

Reviewed-by: art, serb

Reviewed-by: art, dfuchs, lancea

Summary: Improve generated html by fixing doclint warnings
Reviewed-by: sla, jbachorik

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

Reviewed-by: darcy, mchung, alanb, chegar

Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: to add Encoder.withoutPadding()
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: xuelei

Summary: RuntimeMXBean.getUptime() should be based on HR timers rather than on the OS time
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla

Summary: correct declarations and add @SuppressWarnings
Reviewed-by: darcy, lancea

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

Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: lancea, alanb

Reviewed-by: alanb, erikj, ihse, jbachorik

Reviewed-by: alanb

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

Reviewed-by: alexsch

Reviewed-by: naoto

Summary: fix the typo
Reviewed-by: lancea, chegar, dxu

Reviewed-by: alexsch, malenkov
Contributed-by: NDmitry Ginzburg <dmitry.x.ginzburg@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: 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

8027227: [asm] generate CONSTANT_InterfaceMethodref for invoke{special/static) of non-abstract methods on ifaces
Reviewed-by: ksrini, lagergren
Contributed-by: ebruneton@free.fr, forax@univ-mlv.fr, john.r.rose@oracle.com, paul.sandoz@oracle.com

8027681: Lambda serialization fails once reflection proxy generation kicks in
Reviewed-by: ksrini, briangoetz, jfranck
Contributed-by: joel.franck@oracle.com, brian.goetz@oracle.com, robert.field@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: chegar, mduigou

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: alexsch, anthony

8027152: Regression: test closed/java/awt/Serialize/NullSerializationTest/NullSerializationTest.html fails since JDK 8 b112
Reviewed-by: art, serb

Reviewed-by: anthony, pchelko

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: henryjen, mduigou, briangoetz