SI-7455 Drop dummy param for synthetic access constructor

Adapted from scalac commit 050b4c951c838699c2fe30cbf01b63942c63a299 by
Jason Zaugg:

Java synthesizes public constructors in private classes to
allow access from inner classes. The signature of
that synthetic constructor (known as a "access constructor")
has a dummy parameter appended to avoid overloading clashes.
javac chooses the type "Enclosing$1" for the dummy parameter
(called the "access constructor tag") which is either an
existing anonymous class or a synthesized class for this purpose.

In OpenJDK, this transformation is performed in:

  langtools/src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/comp/Lower.java

(Incidentally, scalac would just emits a byte-code public
constructor in this situation, rather than a private constructor /
access constructor pair.)

Scala parses the signature of the access contructor, and drops
the $outer parameter, but retains the dummy parameter. This causes
havoc when it tries to parse the bytecode for that anonymous class;
the class file parser doesn't have the enclosing type parameters
of Vector in scope and crash ensues.

In any case, we shouldn't allow user code to see that constructor;
it should only be called from within its own compilation unit.

This commit drops the dummy parameter from access constructor
signatures in class file parsing.

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