Summary: Created new "new" operator for CHeapObj that allows malloc to fail without causing fatal error. Also replaced "HeapAllocate" with "os::malloc" in decoder code to allow decoder to handle low memory scenario.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Handle stack overflow before the first frame is called, by printing out the called method and not walking the stack.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, dsamersoff

Summary: The change avoids generating relocation info entry for the staging area patching stub on systems that don't support movw/movt instructions
Reviewed-by: bdelsart

Summary: Use LIR_OprDesc::as_pointer_register() instead as_register/as_register_lo combination in the code changes for 7035117.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Added counters for jstat
Reviewed-by: tonyp, jwilhelm, stefank, ysr, johnc

Summary: use java_lang_String::create_from_platform_dependent_str() instead of java_lang_String::create_from_str() in JvmtiEnv::AddToSystemClassLoaderSearch()
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: Missing parentheses around a casted expression and some missing casts were causing build failures with the jdk6 build tools.
Reviewed-by: kvn, brutisso

Summary: Make CDS reorder vtables so that dump time vtables match run time order, so when redefine classes reinitializes them, they aren't in the wrong order.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

Summary: Removed the unused clear argument to various cardtbale methods and unused mod_oop_in_space_iterate method. Unrelated to synopsis, added  a pair of clarifying parens in AllocationStats constructor.
Reviewed-by: brutisso, jcoomes

Summary: Passing NULL as MINIDUMP_EXCEPTION_INFORMATION when calling MiniDumpWriteDump when crash is due to assertion instead of real exception to avoid creating zero-length mini dump file.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, poonam, coleenp

Reviewed-by: gbenson, twisti
Contributed-by: NXerxes Ranby <xerxes@zafena.se>

Summary: Eliminate the race condition.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Allow long type for offset in G1 code in compiler implementations of Unsafe.getObject
Reviewed-by: never, iveresov

Summary: Make sure cnt doesn't become negative and integer overflow doesn't happen.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: This adds support for JSR 292 to Zero.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Allow for one or more fillInStackTrace frames to be skipped
Reviewed-by: mchung, kvn

Summary: the failure is caused by uninitialized bci number
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: The upcoming processors from AMD are the first that support 3dnow prefetch without supporting the 3dnow instruction set.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: tom.deneau@amd.com

Summary: Add the /debug flag to the linker command in Visual Studio
Reviewed-by: mgronlun, poonam, hosterda

Summary: Make MH verification tests more correct, robust, and informative.  Fix lingering symbol refcount problems.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fix -XX:+VerifyOops
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Update the HS21 build number to 08
Reviewed-by: jcoomes