Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: never, twisti
Contributed-by: NHiroshi Yamauchi <yamauchi@google.com>

6875866: Intrinsic for String.indexOf() is broken on x86 with SSE4.2
Summary: Modify String intrinsic methods to pass char[] pointers instead of string oops.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use SSE 4.2 in intrinsics for String.{compareTo/equals/indexOf} and Arrays.equals.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

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

Summary: Add a LoadUB (unsigned byte) and LoadUI (unsigned int) opcode class so we have these load optimizations in the first place and do not need to handle them in the matcher.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: I have collected some typos I have found while looking at the code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Some fixes which are required to build on recent GCCs.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn
Contributed-by: langel@redhat.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Renaming LoadC to LoadUS would round up the planned introduction of LoadUB and LoadUI.
Reviewed-by: phh, kvn

Summary: more and better #line and #define directives in the generated code; ADLC itself accepts #line directives
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Inline biased locking code in C2 ideal graph during macro nodes expansion
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: Add missing _instance_id settings and other EA fixes.
Reviewed-by: rasbold

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

Summary: verify the adr_type of a mach node was not changed
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr

6703890: Compressed Oops: add LoadNKlass node to generate narrow oops (32-bits) compare instructions
Summary: Add LoadNKlass and CMoveN nodes, use CmpN and ConN nodes to generate narrow oops compare instructions.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

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