Summary: schedule the superword loads based on dependence constraints
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: cfang, never

Summary: Fix do_null_check to check for unloaded klass for all oop pointers.
Reviewed-by: never, cfang

Summary: ldc seems to load an empty String and that leads to an assert on offset < length, which are both zero.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: enable compressed oops by default
Reviewed-by: never, ysr

Summary: Update the Major and build numbers for HS17 fork
Reviewed-by: jcoomes