Summary: filter out non-primitives before deciding whether two ops can be packed
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6875866: Intrinsic for String.indexOf() is broken on x86 with SSE4.2
Summary: Modify String intrinsic methods to pass char[] pointers instead of string oops.
Reviewed-by: never

6877254: Server vm crashes with no branches off of store slice" when run with CMS and UseSuperWord(default)
Summary: design StoreCMNode::Ideal to promote its oopStore input if the input is a MergeMem node
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Removed second CheckCastPP and use MembarCPUOrder after arraycopy to cloned object.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Look through chained AddP nodes in get_addp_base().
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Add missing test option -XX:+IgnoreUnrecognizedVMOptions.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Check that a klass is not NULL before the is_loaded() call.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: In load_array_length() cast array's type to TypeOopPtr when calling make_ideal_length() method.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

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