Summary: Removed most of the SPARC V8 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8010460: Interpreter on some platforms loads ConstMethod::_max_stack and misses extra stack slots for JSR 292
Summary: ConstMethod::max_stack() doesn't account for JSR 292 appendix.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8012927: 'assert(nbits == 32 || (-(1 << nbits-1) <= x && x < ( 1 << nbits-1))) failed: value out of range' in interpreter initialization.
Summary: Change br_null_short() to br_null().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

8003848: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Summary: Make ConstMethod::generic_signature_index optional and move Method::_max_stack to ConstMethod.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, sspitsyn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman, coleenp

Summary: use long branches in test_invocation_counter_for_mdp()
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Summary: Eliminate constMethod's _method backpointer to methodOop, and move the _constant field from methodOop to constMethod.
Reviewed-by: roland, bdelsart, kamg

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

Summary: Add new short branch instruction to Hotspot sparc assembler.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jrose

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

Summary: Reuse set_method_data_for_bcp() to setup mdp after MDO creation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

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

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Summary: There are unimplemented portions of the hotspot code for method handles and invokedynamic specific to SPARC.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: This implements JSR 292 support for C1 x86.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose, kvn

Summary: Clear the total count when a receiver information is cleared.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: Fix incorrect marking of methods as not compilable.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add an explicit check for TypeProfileWidth == 0 in record_klass_in_profile_helper() functions.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

Summary: The Address class on SPARC currently handles both, addresses and address literals, what makes the Address class more complicated than it has to be.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: Code in interp_masm, stubGenerator, c1_LIRAssembler, and AD files moved into MacroAssembler.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Remove incorrect optimization in klassItable::adjust_method_entries(). Add RedefineClasses() tracing support for obsolete method entry.
Reviewed-by: acorn, swamyv

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

Summary: sparc code for gen_subtype_check was doing an ld for a compressed oop with the sign bit set so not comparing, leading to a ClassCastException.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, acorn, kvn, xlu

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

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