Summary: These methods can be instrinsified by using bit scan, bit test, and population count instructions.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

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: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: jrose, phh, kvn

Summary: Use SSE 4.2 in intrinsics for String.{compareTo/equals/indexOf} and Arrays.equals.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose

Summary: Tune C2 flags default values for performance.
Reviewed-by: never, phh, iveresov, jmasa, ysr

Reviewed-by: kvn, phh

Reviewed-by: iveresov, tonyp

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Allow Hotspot builds with latest Windows SDK 6.1 on 64bit Windows 2003
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell, jcoomes

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

Summary: bitCount() should use POPC on SPARC processors where POPC is implemented directly in hardware.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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: A similar function to getisax(2) should be used to determine all possible instruction set extensions.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Summary: Add a LoadUB (unsigned byte) and LoadUI (unsigned int) opcode class so we have these load optimizations in the first place and do not need to handle them in the matcher.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

Summary: minor assembler enhancements preparing for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, phh, twisti

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

Summary: There is very much duplicated code in vm_version_x86_{32,64}.{cpp,hpp}.  Refactoring these would help maintainability.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: There are two typos in andL_rReg_imm instructions in x86_64.ad.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Use NULL_WORD in the places where intptr_t is expected due to incompatible types between intptr_t & int32_t
Reviewed-by: phh, coleenp, never

Summary: Renaming LoadC to LoadUS would round up the planned introduction of LoadUB and LoadUI.
Reviewed-by: phh, kvn

Summary: Fixed the stack misalignment when generate_native_wrapper is called.
Reviewed-by: never, kamg, kvn, phh

Summary: Fix compilation errors from latest gcc in CC_INTERP including offending missing void* cast.
Reviewed-by: xlu

Summary: Add a match rule for regD_low in regD definition.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Fixed the wrong cast between types since more restrictions are imposed by gcc 4.3.2
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, acorn, phh, never

6787106: Hotspot 32 bit build fails on platforms having different definitions for intptr_t & int32_t
Summary: Avoid casting between int32_t and intptr_t specifically for MasmAssembler::movptr in 32 bit platforms.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified starting July 2008 to Dec 2008
Reviewed-by: katleman, ohair, tbell

Summary: oop stored in unsafely in Lscratch noticed by visual inspection will not be updated by GC.
Reviewed-by: kamg, never, kvn

Summary: Minor changes required to build using the Visual Studio 2008 compiler
Reviewed-by: kvn, ohair

Summary: Inline biased locking code in C2 ideal graph during macro nodes expansion
Reviewed-by: 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

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold