Summary: move symbols from permgen into C heap and reference count them
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, jmasa, stefank

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, dcubed

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

Summary: Allow CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic nodes to have any number of extra operands.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType; extend 'ldc' bytecode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Add a stress-test flag for running MethodComparator over many inputs.  Fix bugs that crop up.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Change two uses of get_index_u2 to get_index_u2_cpcache; also tweak some debugging print functions
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never