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

Summary: Remove support for verification of class files with version 52 and above from type inference verifier.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel

8010667: Non-zero padding is not allowed in splitverifier for tableswitch/lookupswitch instructions.
Summary: Don't check the padding bits if class file version is >= 51.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Added @run tag so that it actually runs the test, also fixed broken command line and incorrect parsing. Also reviewed by gerard.ziemski@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, zgu

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Call dlerror() in VM thread as necessary.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: added guarantee() to print_entry_on()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: added guarantee() to pd_address_in_code()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Enforce MaxMetaspaceSize for both metaspace parts, check MaxMetaspaceSize against "reserved", not "capacity"
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc

Summary: Remove redundant checks in testMalloc and add assert.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, jcoomes

Summary: Changed tests to use platform independent flags
Reviewed-by: collins, hseigel, zgu

Summary: Don't expose vm generated overpass (bridges to default methods).
Reviewed-by: dholmes, fparain

Summary: add guarantee() to insert_pre_post_loops()
Reviewed-by: kvn

8009777: NMT: add new NMT dcmd to control auto shutdown option
Summary: Added diagnostic VM option and DCmd command to allow NMT stay alive under stress situation
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Summary: add guarantee() to disqualify_method()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to get_instance_klass_for_declared_method_holder()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to set_to_interpreted()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: In 64bit VM move CDS archive address to 32G on all platforms using new flag SharedBaseAddress.  In 32bit VM set CDS archive address to 3Gb on Linux and let other OSs pick the address.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dcubed, zgu, hseigel

Summary: Added a waitFor() on the process
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, sla, zgu

Summary: add guarantee() checks
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() checks to merge_state_into_bb()
Reviewed-by: kvn

7123945: runtime/6878713/Test6878713.sh require about 2G of native memory, swaps and times out
Summary: Add new diagnostic option -XX:MallocMaxTestWords=NNN and fix Test6878713.sh.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp, dholmes, iklam

Summary: added missing parenthesis
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: If the marking stack overflows while the marking tasks are draining the SATB buffers, remark will exit with some SATB buffers left unprocessed. Relax the guarantee to allow for overflow.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, brutisso