Summary: Add support for distribution-specific error reporting
Reviewed-by: coleenp, phh, jcoomes, ohair

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

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

Summary: Uses JDK_Version to determinate to set vm vendor to "Oracle Corporation" for JDK7 and later.
Reviewed-by: kamg, ohair, coleenp

Summary: Shark is a JIT compiler for Zero that uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: kamg, ysr, dholmes, johnc

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

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

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

Summary: Use the same default number of GC threads as used by ParNewGC and ConcMarkSweepGC (i.e., the 5/8th rule).
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp