RFR(M) JDK-8031819: Remove legacy jdk checks and code

[David Holmes]

On 13/06/2014 3:20 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 06/06/2014 02:07 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
>> This caught my eye... Have we already reached a point where we
>> can't put the current JDK9 JVM into various JDK8 builds? I know
>> we have restrictions about putting the current JVM (and the
>> HSX-25 JVM) into JDK7...
>
> I don't know what these restrictions are; I'd be very interested
> to know, please.

IIRC there are a bunch of java.lang.invoke / MethodHandle changes in 8 
that are not compatible with JDK 7.

David

> Thanks,
> Andrew.
>