[8u40] Request to backport 8057793: BigDecimal is no longer effectively immutable

[Brian Burkhalter]

Hello,

Please refer to:

* http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2014-September/028696.html
* http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2014-September/028712.html

The JDK 9 patch applies cleanly modulo removing java.base/ from the source path.

I should have posted this prior to the related backport requests for 8058505 and 8058664.

Thanks,

Brian