Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed, kamg

Summary: Change default release value to jdk8 (but overrideable)
Reviewed-by: phh, jcoomes, dholmes, ohair

Summary: Increase StackShadowPages to accomodate the JDK changes to increase buffer size in socketWrite
Reviewed-by: acorn, phh

Summary: Added Large File Support by compiling libsaproc.so with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, and a small change with which SA should first load libraries from the path specified with SA_ALTROOT.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kevinw, dcubed, minqi

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Code cleanup and creating a private decoder for error handler, since it can be triggered from in signal handler, where no lock can be taken
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg, acorn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: unaligned stack in throw_NullPointerException_at_call_entry().
Reviewed-by: twisti, never, kvn

Summary: Adjust the assert and code in eliminate_card_mark() method for case when stored value is NULL.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

Summary: LLVM-GCC (__llvm__) should use the same _get_previous_fp implementation as __clang__ (as is the case for os::current_stack_pointer).
Reviewed-by: twisti, never, dcubed

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Fix EXPORT_PATH overrides on Mac OS X and only change default.
Reviewed-by: phh, dcubed
Contributed-by: james.melvin@oracle.com

Summary: Comment out JPRT jbb tests on Mac OS X until GUI hang can be fixed
Reviewed-by: dholmes, brutisso, phh
Contributed-by: james.melvin@oracle.com

Summary: Cleaned up make variables for compilers and linker to consistently use CXX for C++ compiler, CC for C compiler and LD for linker.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohrstrom

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: phh, jmasa

Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NVolker Simonis <volker.simonis@gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add support for packaging HotSpot JVM builds in universal binaries
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg, dcubed, phh
Contributed-by: james.melvin@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, kevinw, brutisso, twisti, jmasa

Summary: too optimistic inlining decision confuses local value numbering.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use unknown_obj instead of empty_map for NULL or Constant Pool object constants in bytecode Escape Analyzer.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never