[8u] backport of 8075587: Compilation of constant array containing different sub classes crashes the JVM

[Roland Westrelin]

Thanks, Vladimir.

Roland.

> On Apr 8, 2015, at 5:34 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Okay.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
> 
> On 4/8/15 6:16 AM, Roland Westrelin wrote:
>> 8u backport request. 8075587 was pushed to jdk9 1 week ago and it hasn’t caused any new failures during nightly testing. The
>> change applies cleanly to 8u (identical change with an offset of -133 lines in file type.cpp).
>> 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8075587
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-comp/hotspot/rev/215053fb9d59
>> 
>> Roland.
>>