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

[serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com]

Sorry, Coleen.

I've replied to the David's email but somehow missed the hotspot-dev list.

I've compared this with the jdk9 webrev.
It is the same so that the fix is good.

Thanks,
Serguei

On 11/26/14 11:44 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>
> Thank you!  Serguei reviewed the backport also, but I don't think he 
> replied to the whole list.
>
> Coleen
>
> On 11/26/14, 2:40 PM, David Chase wrote:
>> 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
>