Summary: The -XX:+UseVMInterruptibleIO flag is deprecated for JDK8.  The flag will still enable Interruptible IO on Solaris, but users will get a warning.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, alanb
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Reviewed-by: kamg, kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove unneeded assert.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp

Summary: Accept classfiles with major version 52
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn

Summary: code generated by c1 for getClass intrinsic broken when klass field is loaded on 64bit with compressed klass off.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Remove the SharedSkipVerify flag
Reviewed-by: kamg, sspitsyn, coleenp
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: several changes to adlc to improve its usability
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Summary: Removed LoadUI2L node from Ideal nodes, use match rule in .ad files instead.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add the test
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg
Contributed-by: NMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: In ClassWrite.writeFields(), fields count was mistakenly set to fields length which overflow the array index. Also removed a file which is leftover from 6879063 changeset.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Replace all occurrences of long with jlong in C2 code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Don't use HS_DTRACE_PROBE_CDECL_N and HS_DTRACE_PROBE_N directly.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: NMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>

Summary: Prepend '.' to the existing native library path
Reviewed-by: kvn, sspitsyn

Summary: Move decoding into Dependencies::DepStream::argument, so no caller could see encoded context value (NULL) anymore.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: add LogCompilation support in C1 - both client and tiered mode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti