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

Reviewed-by: twisti

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: The logic of ClassFileParser::java_dyn_MethodHandle_fix_pre needs to take care of an already changed vmentry signature.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

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

6930553: classfile format checker allows invalid method descriptor in CONSTANT_NameAndType_info in some cases
Summary: Check NameAndType_info signatures aggressively, even when unreferenced
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, never

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh

Reviewed-by: jmasa, iveresov

Reviewed-by: tonyp, iveresov

Summary: Add new jvmstat counters to measure detailed class loading time
Reviewed-by: acorn, kamg

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

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

Summary: low-level privileged sun.misc.Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass
Reviewed-by: kvn