Summary: Provide additional detail in VerifyError messages
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

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

7187429: NMT ON: Merge failure should cause NMT to shutdown
Summary: Fixed NMT assertion failures
Reviewed-by: acorn, kvn

Summary: Add Darwin like Linux to shell scripts
Reviewed-by: kvn, kamg, dholmes

Summary: Templates need this object if not using template parameter in call
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes

Summary: Implementation of decoder for Apple's MacOSX. The implementation is based on the patch provided by Kevin Walls.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, kevinw

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Lower compiler optimization level when compiling jvmtiClassFileReconstituter.cpp as a workaround for the solaris x86 5.10 cc bug.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

7185550: TEST: runtime/7020373/Test7020373.sh fails because there is no test/runtime/7020373/testcase.jar
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Various cleanups as a prelude to introducing iterators for HeapRegions.
Reviewed-by: johnc, brutisso

Summary: 1) Fixed MemTrackWorker::generations_in_used() calculation 2) Ensured NMT not to leak memory recorders after shutdown 3) Used ThreadCritical to block safepoint safe threads
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, dholmes, kvn

Reviewed-by: kamg