javac NPE or VerifyError for code with constructor reference of inner class

A user has reported this error to be failing in 8u25. I have created this backport to track this issue and for us to consider if it should be backported or not. The bug report is here: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2014-November/009122.html. I found that this was the failing changeset using my script for automatic regression finding. Please double check that this changeset actually fix the bug reported.