Summary: Switch off executing Escape Analysis by default for now
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Summary: add safepoint before popping expression stack, not after
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Escape Analysis fixes.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

Summary: Add mechanism to ignore unsupported flags for a set period of time
Reviewed-by: acorn, never, coleenp

Summary: SS12 C++ tripped over new templates usage in instanceKlass.cpp.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: partial peeling shouldn't place clones into loop
Reviewed-by: kvn

6712835: Server compiler fails with assertion (loop_count < K,"infinite loop in PhaseIterGVN::transform")
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: make do_ifnull() handling similar to do_if()
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: allocate alignment-sized page(s) below java heap so that memory accesses at heap_base+1page give signal and cause an implicit null check
Reviewed-by: kvn, jmasa, phh, jcoomes

Summary: Add missing _instance_id settings and other EA fixes.
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Summary: Remove call to repush_if_args()
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: pbk

Summary: switch on EA by default, optimize Connection Graph construction
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Fixed linux make file and couple adlc code to meet the changes of gcc 4.3
Reviewed-by: kamg, igor

Summary: Set instance_id to InstanceBot for InstPtr->meet(AryPtr) when types are not related.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: Fixed stack walking code in sparc to start frame walk from last_java_sp.
Reviewed-by: sgoldman

Summary: import the absolute output directory when launching sub make process and avoid including defs.make in rules.make
Reviewed-by: kamg, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove DecodeNNode::decode() and EncodePNode::encode() methods.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: For small (1-3 bits) left long shifts in 32-bits VM use sets of add+addc instructions instead of shld+shl on new AMD cpus.
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: shrinivas.joshi@amd.com

Summary: This fix enables the generation of core file when process runs out of C-heap.
Reviewed-by: sbohne