[8u] approval request for 8148379: jdk.nashorn.api.scripting spec. adjustments, clarifications

[Sundararajan Athijegannathan]

On 2/25/2016 5:01 PM, Sundararajan Athijegannathan wrote:
> Please approve the following backport:
>
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8148379
> jdk9 review thread: 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nashorn-dev/2016-February/005973.html
> jdk8u webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sundar/8148379/8u/webrev.00/
>
> the patch wouldn't apply 'as is' (apart from source layout changes). I 
> had to do manual merge in two files:
>
> build.xml:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sundar/8148379/8u/webrev.00/make/build.xml.udiff.html 
>
>
> -- because jdk8u build.xml and jdk9-dev build.xml are different now 
> and hence line numbers don't match
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sundar/8148379/8u/webrev.00/src/jdk/nashorn/api/scripting/AbstractJSObject.java.udiff.html 
>
>
> -- 8u source is slightly different.
>
> I'm cc'ing nashorn-dev alias as well.
>
> -Sundar