[8u76] Request for approval: 8131782: C1 Class.cast optimization breaks when Class is loaded from static final

[Aleksey Shipilev]

Hi,

On 12/03/2015 08:38 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> On 3 Dec 2015, at 18:33, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you, Rob!
>>
>> Any Hotspot+8u sponsors around?
> 
> While i am not a hotspot team member i think i can still can sponsor.

It looks like this one is not pushed yet. I thought the plan was to push
it alongside with 8140587, but it seems to fall through the cracks.
Could 8u committers please pick this up?

Webrev:
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8131782/webrev.02/

JDK 9 Changeset:
  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/rev/df802f98b828

Thanks,
-Aleksey