review request (XL): 6981777: implement JSR 292 EG adjustments from summer 2010

[John Rose]

Thanks for the review.  I will answer it in detail shortly.  Here's a related (tiny) review request for JVM code.

  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/6984311/webrev.03/src/share/vm/prims/methodHandles.cpp.udiff.html

A tiny JVM bug was uncovered by unit-testing the big JDK changes for 6981777.  

(It's in the *311 webrev because I thought of rolling it into the fixes for 6984311, but then decided to split it.)

-- John

On Oct 28, 2010, at 4:30 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:

> On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:39 AM, John Rose wrote:
>> This is a large set of miscellaneous API adjustments that takes account of intensive JSR 292 Expert Group work since the JVM Language Summit and JavaOne.
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/6981777/webrev.01/