Maximum size of a method in Java 7 and 8

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According to JVMS7 :

The fact that end_pc is exclusive is a historical mistake in the
design of the Java virtual machine: if the Java virtual machine code
for a method is exactly 65535 bytes long and ends with an instruction
that is 1 byte long, then that instruction cannot be protected by an
exception handler. A compiler writer can work around this bug by
limiting the maximum size of the generated Java virtual machine code
for any method, instance initialization method, or static initializer
(the size of any code array) to 65534 bytes.

But this is about Java 7. There is no final specs for Java 8, so nobody (except its developers) could answer this question.

UPD (2015-04-06) According to JVM8 it is also true for Java 8.

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