Summary: Build system tweaks to allow building on OS X 10.9 and later
Reviewed-by: erikj, dholmes

8062063: Usage of UseHugeTLBFS, UseLargePagesInMetaspace and huge SurvivorAlignmentInBytes cause crashes in CMBitMapClosure::do_bit
Summary: Making sure committed memory is cleared when re-committed, even if using large pages.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, tschatzl

Summary: Check for dead input nodes after replacing compare node with implicit null check.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: roland, kvn

8067232: [TESTBUG] runtime/CheckEndorsedAndExtDirs/EndorsedExtDirs.java fails with ClassNotFoundException
Summary: Added explicit build instructions for test library
Reviewed-by: minqi, mchung, jiangli

Summary: bad assumption on graph shape in CastIINode::Value if that part of the graph is becoming dead.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: range check smearing uncorrectly adjust first range check in a list of range checks to cover all of them
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, iveresov

Summary: -XX:+TraceDeoptimization tries to print realloc'ed objects even when there are none
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: The new code in 8u backport should guard the execution of the following code instead of return.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Check for safepoint and block during EA Connection graph construction.
Reviewed-by: roland, vlivanov, shade

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Don't remove KILL projections if their "defining" nodes have SCMemProj projection (memory side effects).
Reviewed-by: iveresov, roland

Reviewed-by: kvn, rbackman, anoll, vlivanov, iignatyev
Contributed-by: tatiana.pivovarova@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: hseigel, ccheung

Reviewed-by: tbell