Initial runtime support for the ValueTypes attribute

[Harold David Seigel]

Hi Fred,

These changes look good.

Is the check for value_types()->is_shared() in 
InstanceKlass::delete_contents() needed for CDS?

Thanks, Harold


On 5/17/2018 4:04 PM, Frederic Parain wrote:
> Please review this first patch related to the ValueTypes attribute:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~fparain/VTAttribute/webrev.00/
>
> The patch includes:
>    - the parsing of the ValueTypes attribute
>    - the creation of meta-data from this attribute
>    - a consistency check between the ACC_FLATTENABLE flag
>      and the ValueTypes attribute
>    - the pre-loading of method arguments types and return values types
>
> Fred
>