Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, twisti
Contributed-by: NRoman Kennke <rkennke@redhat.com>

Summary: Change makefiles so that targets and parameters can be overridden by alternate makefiles.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

7012914: JSR 292 MethodHandlesTest C1: frame::verify_return_pc(return_address) failed: must be a return pc
Reviewed-by: never, bdelsart

6766644: Redefinition of compiled method fails with assertion "Can not load classes with the Compiler thread"
Summary: Defer posting events from the compiler thread: use service thread
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, never, dcubed

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

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

Summary: Implementation of a nonproduct boolean flag XX:PrintFlagsWithComments
Reviewed-by: kamg, dholmes, dsamersoff

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: kvn, twisti, apetrusenko, never, dcubed

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

Summary: make verification code visible only in debug builds
Reviewed-by: iveresov, ysr, johnc, apetrusenko, tonyp

Summary: For current soft-ref clearing policies, we can decide at marking time if a soft-reference will definitely not be cleared, postponing the decision of whether it will definitely be cleared to the final reference processing phase. This can be especially beneficial in the case of concurrent collectors where the marking is usually concurrent but reference processing is usually not.
Reviewed-by: jmasa

Summary: Update for files that have been modified starting July 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

6459804: Want client (c1) compiler for x86_64 (amd64) for faster start-up
Reviewed-by: kvn