[8u-dev] Request for Approval: 8170977: SparseArrayData should not grow its underlying dense array data

[Hannes Wallnöfer]

Please approve backport to 8u-dev:

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170977
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8170977/webrev/nashorn.patch
Review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nashorn-dev/2016-December/006752.html

The patch applies cleanly to 8u-dev after path reshuffling.

Thanks,
Hannes