Summary: Fixed the cast from char* to const char* and tried to use const char* as much as possible
Reviewed-by: never, kamg
Contributed-by: xiaobin.lu@sun.com

Summary: Remove the preferred base address built with libjvm.so and unified the PIC approach on Solaris & Linux.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg
Contributed-by: xiaobin.lu@sun.com

Summary: comment out code that turns on compressed oops
Reviewed-by: never, phh

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, rasbold

6711083: 64bit JVM crashes with Internal Error (type.cpp:763) - ShouldNotReachHere() with enabled COOPs
Summary: Add NarrowOop to various xmeet routines
Reviewed-by: kvn, sgoldman, jrose, rasbold

Summary: Code in gen_subtype_check was encoding rax as an oop on a path where rax was not an oop.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: exclude UEP size from nmethod code size and use narrow klass oop to load prototype header.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Use correct offset for the java.lang.Class _klass field in SA.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: guard AryEqNode construction with has_match_rule() test, set SpecialArraysEquals default off
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Bump up build number to 02
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Intrinsify java/util/Arrays.equals(char[], char[])
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Generate addresses and implicit null checks with narrow oops to avoid decoding.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: Update the copyrights
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: decouple set_klass() with zeroing the gap when compressed.
Reviewed-by: kvn, ysr, jrose

Summary: xsl output tag not at top level
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, rasbold
Contributed-by: gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org

Summary: Allows for jprt submit -release option to select jdk version and proper build targets.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Remove workaround compiler options for instanceKlass.cpp and objArrayKlass.cpp.
Reviewed-by: ysr, jcoomes

Summary: Allows for building with SS12, no longer requires SS11, warns if not SS11 for now. Once SS12 is validated and performance measurements look ok, SS12 will be the validated compiler.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, ikrylov

Summary: Make max classfile version number dependent on JDK version
Reviewed-by: acorn, never

Summary: Use the gap also for a narrow oop field and a boxing object value.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never

6703890: Compressed Oops: add LoadNKlass node to generate narrow oops (32-bits) compare instructions
Summary: Add LoadNKlass and CMoveN nodes, use CmpN and ConN nodes to generate narrow oops compare instructions.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

Summary: fix several problems in C2 related to Escape Analysis and Compressed Oops.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: The method Node::dominates loops in the dead code which does not have a Region node.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

6700102: c2 assertion "counter_changed,"failed dependencies, but counter didn't change")" with AggressiveOpts
Summary: Bytecode Escape Analyzer does not have the check for the case described in 6389127.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: back out sa-related changes to 6652736, use concrete expressions for WKK names in the SA
Reviewed-by: never, sundar