Summary: Enables cross building of a c2 VM. Support masking of shift counts when the processor architecture mandates it.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Add option for gcc 4 and above, define JNIEXPORT and JNIIMPORT to visibility=default, add for jio_snprintf and others since -fvisibility=hidden overrides --version-script definitions.
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

Summary: Check for CROSS_COMPILE_ARCH being set as an indicator to use ALT_COMPILER_PATH
Reviewed-by: acorn, ohair

Summary: Added an ifndef DONT_USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER to precompiled.hpp. Set up DONT_USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER when compiling with Sun Studio or when the user specifies USE_PRECOMPILED_HEADER=0. Fixed broken include dependencies.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn

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

Summary: Shark is a JIT compiler for Zero that uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Summary: Switch off GCC 4.3.0 optimized compilation for mulnode.o.
Reviewed-by: johnc

Summary: Enable debugging in many places
Reviewed-by: ohair
Contributed-by: NAndrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>

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

Reviewed-by: tbell

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

Summary: Fixed linux make file and couple adlc code to meet the changes of gcc 4.3
Reviewed-by: kamg, igor

Summary: Remove the preferred base address built with libjvm.so and unified the PIC approach on Solaris & Linux.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg
Contributed-by: xiaobin.lu@sun.com

Summary: Moved makefiles out of build and build/closed into make/
Reviewed-by: kvn, ohair