Summary: smaller shared changes required to build the C2 compiler on PPC64.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NMorris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: NBharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

Summary: remember the code section and switch back to the proper one when adding constants.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

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: Distance is too large for one short branch in string_indexofC8().
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

7010070: Update all 2010 Oracle-changed OpenJDK files to have the proper copyright dates - second pass
Summary: Update the copyright to be 2010 on all changed files in OpenJDK
Reviewed-by: ohair

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

Summary: oops should be loaded from the constant table of an nmethod instead of materializing them with a long code sequence.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

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

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: minor assembler enhancements preparing for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: I have collected some typos I have found while looking at the code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never