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: Asserts and comments to help maintain the correct sizing of certain stubs
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use zero based compressed oops if java heap is below 32gb and unscaled compressed oops if java heap is below 4gb.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jcoomes, coleenp

Summary: Code in vtableStubs and templateTable moved into MacroAssembler.
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: jcoomes