Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Makefile produces unmatched quotes due to nmake bug
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

8001756: Hotspot makefiles report missing OBJCOPY command in the wrong circumstances
Reviewed-by: dcubed, dsamersoff, erikj, collins

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, twisti
Contributed-by: NRoman Kennke <rkennke@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Don't use HS_DTRACE_PROBE_CDECL_N and HS_DTRACE_PROBE_N directly.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes, sspitsyn
Contributed-by: NMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>

Summary: Prepend '.' to the existing native library path
Reviewed-by: kvn, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair
Contributed-by: NFredrik Ohrstrom <fredrik.ohrstrom@oracle.com>

Summary: We should in SA to use hsdis for it like the JVM does to replace the current java based disassembler.
Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose, sla
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Fixed copyrights
Reviewed-by: dholmes
Contributed-by: NBill Pittore <bill.pittore@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, jprovino, ohair

Reviewed-by: dholmes, tbell, erikj, ihse, ohrstrom

Reviewed-by: ohair, dholmes

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, nloodin, mgronlun, coleenp

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Remove the workaround of 7187454 problem which was restored incorrectly during NPG merge.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

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>

Reviewed-by: johnc

Summary: Added capability to load support classes for other cpus
Reviewed-by: coleenp, bobv, sla
Contributed-by: NBill Pittore <bill.pittore@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Add some quotes around the classpath in the project file rule.
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: add "arm" to the list of processors that need -fPIC
Reviewed-by: vladidan, dholmes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: This fix is the minimum number of Makefile changes to enable building HotSpot with MinGW/MSYS
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, dcubed, tbell, ohair
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Change DEBUG_BINARIES option logic to be more clear.
Reviewed-by: fparain, andrew

Summary: Added new FormatBufferResource class to use thread's resource area for error message buffer.
Reviewed-by: twisti