Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Removed will_link and changed all calls to is_loaded().
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Qualify calls with this pointers to make gcc accept this code.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, andrew
Contributed-by: peter.levart@gmail.com

Summary: When java process crashed in compiler thread, repeat the compilation process will help finding root cause. This is done with using SA dump application class data and replay data from core dump, then use debug version of jvm to recompile the problematic java method.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Check that the values specified for -XX:StringTableSize are within a certain range.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Fixed NMT that miscounted arena memory when it is used as value or stack object.
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Allows NMT to report that JNI thread failed to detach from JVM before exiting, which leaks the JavaThread object when check:jni option is on.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes, coleenp, ctornqvi

Summary: Reduce the amount of calls to ChunkManager verification code
Reviewed-by: jmasa, coleenp

Summary: dll_dir can contain multiple paths, need to parse them correctly when loading agents
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dlong
Contributed-by: bill.pittore@oracle.com

Summary: Added missed type check of initializing store in ConnectionGraph::find_init_values().
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti, vlivanov

Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Summary: Add missing UseSSE check for AES intrinsics.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

8001756: Hotspot makefiles report missing OBJCOPY command in the wrong circumstances
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff, erikj, collins

8001591: NMT: assertion failed: assert(rec->addr() + rec->size() <= cur->base()) failed: Can not overlap in memSnapshot.cpp
Summary: NMT should allow overlapping committed regions as long as they belong to the same reserved region
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: The old function not defined properly, need a definition for export in dll. Also changes made to let new jvm work with old hsdis.
Reviewed-by: jrose, sspitsyn, kmo
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

8001658: No need to pass resolved_references as argument to ConstantPoolCacheEntry::set_method_handle_common
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jcoomes