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

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Summary: replace recursive method with iterative
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: dean.long@oracle.com

Summary: replace frequent C2 optimizer code patterns with new methods calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Summary: Compare uncasted object nodes.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Removed predicate cloning from loop peeling optimization and from split fall-in paths.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Fix integer overflow problem in the code generated by loop optimizer.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Clone loop predicate for clonned loops
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: Use replace_node() method instead of subsume_node().
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: pbk, kvn

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009 through Septermber
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: Fix eliminate_card_mark() to eliminate G1 pre/post barriers.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold

Summary: Use scalar replacement with EA to remove allocations for objects which do not escape the compiled method.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never, jrose