Reviewed-by: erikj, dholmes

Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, sla
Contributed-by: NKaren Kinnear &lt;karen.kinnear@oracle.com&gt;, Bengt Rutisson &lt;bengt.rutisson@oracle.com&gt;, Calvin Cheung &lt;calvin.cheung@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Gahlin &lt;erik.gahlin@oracle.com&gt;, Erik Helin &lt;erik.helin@oracle.com&gt;, Jesper Wilhelmsson &lt;jesper.wilhelmsson@oracle.com&gt;, Keith McGuigan &lt;keith.mcguigan@oracle.com&gt;, Mattias Tobiasson &lt;mattias.tobiasson@oracle.com&gt;, Markus Gronlund &lt;markus.gronlund@oracle.com&gt;, Mikael Auno &lt;mikael.auno@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Eliasson &lt;nils.eliasson@oracle.com&gt;, Nils Loodin &lt;nils.loodin@oracle.com&gt;, Rickard Backman &lt;rickard.backman@oracle.com&gt;, Staffan Larsen &lt;staffan.larsen@oracle.com&gt;, Stefan Karlsson &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, Yekaterina Kantserova <yekaterina.kantserova@oracle.com>

Summary: remove JPRT debug builds, remove -DDEBUG -DFASTDEBUG and use ASSERT instead in sources
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn, coleenp

Summary: Remove old kernel build targets and VS C++ projects created by create.bat on Windows
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sla

Summary: Phase 1 is removing '_g' support from the Makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, sspitsyn, coleenp, tbell
Contributed-by: ron.durbin@oracle.com

Summary: Add support for ENABLE_FULL_DEBUG_SYMBOLS and ZIP_DEBUGINFO_FILES build flags. Add support for .diz files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohrstrom, ohair, jcoomes

Summary: Fixed Windows exe/dll right-click properties. "Oracle Corporation" for company name in jdk7, but "Sun Microsystems, Inc." for jdk6.
Reviewed-by: phh, acorn

Summary: Fix the compiler error. Allow to build just c2 specifying FORCE_TIERED=0 on the command line.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Fix build.bat so invoking command shell doesn't exit on error. Fix dirname assumptions. Document some MKS environment dependencies.
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Clean up get_msc_ver, build.bat and build.make in general and for Cygwin.
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: These changes enable the SA binaries build with hotspot build on Windows
Reviewed-by: swamyv

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Moved makefiles out of build and build/closed into make/
Reviewed-by: kvn, ohair