Reviewed-by: vlivanov, mhaupt, ahgross

Reviewed-by: jrose, psandoz

Reviewed-by: psandoz, shade

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: psandoz

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, psandoz
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, psandoz
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, psandoz
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, psandoz
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, psandoz
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, psandoz
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, psandoz
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, psandoz
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, psandoz
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jrose, psandoz, twisti

Reviewed-by: psandoz, jrose

Reviewed-by: jrose, vlivanov, ahgross

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

Reviewed-by: iveresov, jrose

8015808: Typo in MethodHandle javadoc
Summary: Fix typos and javadoc markup and extraneous paragraph tags
Reviewed-by: lancea

Summary: add wildcard to unreflectConstructor, various clarifications and minor edits
Reviewed-by: mchung, darcy, twisti

Summary: align CONSTANT_MethodHandle and Lookup.find* API calls, clarify security manager & @CallerSensitive interactions
Reviewed-by: mchung, twisti

Summary: promote an existing private method; make unit tests on all argument positions to arity 10 with mixed types
Reviewed-by: twisti, vlivanov

Summary: Align MH semantic with bytecode behavior of constructor and static member accesses, regarding <clinit> invocation.
Reviewed-by: twisti, darcy, abuckley, vlivanov

Summary: add an explicit check for leading "<", upgrade the unit tests
Reviewed-by: twisti, darcy

Summary: Document error conditions that may occur when calling a "spreader" method handle.  Use IAE in all cases.
Reviewed-by: twisti, vlivanov

Summary: clarification of erroneous reading of spec. that led to 7194534
Reviewed-by: twisti, darcy

Summary: Replicate JVM logic for access control that makes Object.clone appear public when applied to an array type.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: use a per-MH one element cache for MH.asType to speed up MH.invoke; also cache enough MH constants to cache LMF.metafactory
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: A major overhaul to MethodHandleInfo and method handles in general.
Reviewed-by: vlivanov, twisti
Contributed-by: john.r.rose@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: dfuchs, jrose, jdn, ahgross, chegar

Reviewed-by: jrose, alanb, dfuchs

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: lancea, chegar, psandoz

Reviewed-by: vlivanov, jdn

Reviewed-by: jrose, alanb, twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, jdn

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