Reviewed-by: twisti, jrose

Summary: Handle stack overflow before the first frame is called, by printing out the called method and not walking the stack.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh, dsamersoff

Reviewed-by: kvn, kamg, jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes
Reviewed-by: twisti

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

Summary: Tag allocated memory with a magic value and verify when releasing.
Reviewed-by: phh, stefank

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

Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: We need a way to walk chained method handles in the JVM to call the right methods and to generate required bytecode adapters for the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fix several crashers, remove needless paths for boxed-style bootstrap method call, refactor & simplify APIs for rewriter constantPoolOop, remove sun.dyn.CallSiteImpl
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: correctly raise exceptions, support safe bitwise "raw" conversions, fix bugs revealed by VerifyMethodHandles, remove dead code, improve debugging support
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

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

Summary: initial implementation, with known omissions (x86/64, sparc, compiler optim., c-oops, C++ interp.)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, never

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

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: VM support for deadlock fix. Library fix in 4735126. See API proposal.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, blacklion

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

Summary: Use the gap also for a narrow oop field and a boxing object value.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never

Summary: combine many scalar variables into a single enum-indexed array in SystemDictionary.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold

Summary: convert strings from Download Manager into native encoding in the VM
Reviewed-by: sbohne, never, phh, kamg, xlu