Summary: Add support for distribution-specific error reporting
Reviewed-by: coleenp, phh, jcoomes, ohair

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

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

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

Summary: Use the same default number of GC threads as used by ParNewGC and ConcMarkSweepGC (i.e., the 5/8th rule).
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp