Bug ID: JDK-8250226 Unspecified exception thrown by Class::getDeclaringClass and Class::getEnclosingClass if the outer class is not present

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public class X {
    public class Y {} 
}

The outer class of Y is X.  `Y.class.getDeclaringClass()` returns `Class` instance representing X.

The behavior is not specified if X cannot be found.   The current implementation throws NCDFE.
 
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: X
	at java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaringClass0(Native Method)
	at java.base/java.lang.Class.getEnclosingClass(Class.java:1536)
	at Test.main(Test.java:5)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: X
	at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:602)
	at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178)
	at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
	... 3 more

The APIs whose implementation inspects `InnerAttributes` or `EnclosingMethod` method have simiar issue such as:
Class::getDeclaringClass, Class::getEnclosingClass, Class::getDeclaredClasses