Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Summary: Handle stack overflow before the first frame is called, by printing out the called method and not walking the stack.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, dsamersoff

Summary: Allow for one or more fillInStackTrace frames to be skipped
Reviewed-by: mchung, kvn

Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, kamg, jcoomes

Summary: After appropriate testing, we need to turn on EnableMethodHandles and EnableInvokeDynamic by default.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, jrose, phh

Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, ysr, jwilhelm

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: consolidate runtime support in java.dyn.MethodHandleNatives; include transitional compatibility logic
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Summary: Tag allocated memory with a magic value and verify when releasing.
Reviewed-by: phh, stefank

Summary: move functions from hpi library to hotspot, communicate with licensees and open source community, check jdk for dependency, file CCC request
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, dsamersoff

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Fixed missing pre-barrier calls for G1, modified C1 to call pre- and correct post-barrier interfaces, deleted obsolete interface, (temporarily) disabled redundant deferred barrier in BacktraceBuilder.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: We need a way to walk chained method handles in the JVM to call the right methods and to generate required bytecode adapters for the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Introduced a new write_ref_array(HeapWords* start, size_t count) method that does the requisite MemRegion range calculation so (some of the) clients of the erstwhile write_ref_array(MemRegion mr) do not need to worry. This removed all external uses of array_size(), which was also simplified and made private. Asserts were added to catch other possible issues. Further, less essential, fixes stemming from this investigation are deferred to CR 6904516 (to follow shortly in hs17).
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, jmasa

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: ldc seems to load an empty String and that leads to an assert on offset < length, which are both zero.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: use PcDesc to keep record of the reexecute bit instead of using DebugInfoStreams
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: developed a reexecute logic for the interpreter to reexecute the bytecode when deopt happens
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose, 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: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Summary: VM support for deadlock fix. Library fix in 4735126. See API proposal.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, blacklion

Summary: Fixed the wrong cast between types since more restrictions are imposed by gcc 4.3.2
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, acorn, phh, never

Summary: Add mechanism to ignore unsupported flags for a set period of time
Reviewed-by: acorn, never, coleenp

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

Summary: Use the gap also for a narrow oop field and a boxing object value.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never

Summary: combine many scalar variables into a single enum-indexed array in SystemDictionary.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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 or remove uninitialized fields
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: convert strings from Download Manager into native encoding in the VM
Reviewed-by: sbohne, never, phh, kamg, xlu