Summary: missing #ifdef ASSERT
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: when possible optimize out array bound checks, inserting predicates when needed.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Nthomaswue <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: C1 value numbering hits unloaded klass.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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>

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: use shorter instruction sequences for atomic add and atomic exchange when possible.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Issue storestore barrier before constructor return if the constructor write final field.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jrose, roland, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

6965570: assert(!needs_patching && x->is_loaded(),"how do we know it's volatile if it's not loaded")
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

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

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

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

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose