Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Fix several crashers, remove needless paths for boxed-style bootstrap method call, refactor & simplify APIs for rewriter constantPoolOop, remove sun.dyn.CallSiteImpl
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: correctly raise exceptions, support safe bitwise "raw" conversions, fix bugs revealed by VerifyMethodHandles, remove dead code, improve debugging support
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: minor assembler enhancements preparing for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use NULL_WORD in the places where intptr_t is expected due to incompatible types between intptr_t & int32_t
Reviewed-by: phh, coleenp, never

6787106: Hotspot 32 bit build fails on platforms having different definitions for intptr_t & int32_t
Summary: Avoid casting between int32_t and intptr_t specifically for MasmAssembler::movptr in 32 bit platforms.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Update for files that have been modified starting July 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

6459804: Want client (c1) compiler for x86_64 (amd64) for faster start-up
Reviewed-by: kvn