[8u40] RFR: 8042235: redefining method used by multiple MethodHandles crashes VM

[David Chase]

Not a reviewer, but I worked on a version of this bug, and this patch looks okay to me.

David

On 2014-11-25, at 3:17 PM, Coleen Phillimore <coleen.phillimore at oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> This is a backport of the bug fix for bug *https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8042593
> 
> *The fix has been in JDK9 for a week with a couple of nights of successful testing.  The patch applied cleanly to jdk8u40.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/8042235_8u40/
> 
> Please approve this backport.
> 
> thanks,
> Coleen