Summary: Put generated MH adapter in InvokeDynamic/MethodHandle classes to be able to indentify them easily in the compiler.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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: remove useless lazy evaluation of intrinsics; add LAST_COMPILER_INLINE to help categorize them
Reviewed-by: kvn

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: The CMS concurrent precleaning and concurrent marking phases should work around classes that are undergoing redefinition.
Reviewed-by: ysr, dcubed

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

Summary: Initial checkin of JSDT code
Reviewed-by: acorn, sbohne

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold

Summary: Fix load_signature_classes to tolerate LinkageErrors
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Add should_not_be_cached() to markOop and methodOop and query that status inOopMapCache::lookup()
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn, jmasa