Summary: 64-bits VM crashes with -XX:+AggresiveOpts (Escape Analysis + Compressed Oops)
Reviewed-by: never, sgoldman

Summary: Misc. 64bit and endian fixes for sparc
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, rasbold
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

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

Summary: Cardtable base can be zero, ExternalAddress can't take a NULL.

Summary: Rewrite frame::safe_for_sender and friends to be safe for collector/analyzer
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kvn

Summary: remove old private plugin interface, simplify, rework old plugin to use unchanged Gnu sources
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: incorrect encoding
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold, sgoldman, jrose

Summary: Use CVTDQ2PS and CVTDQ2PD for integer values conversions to float and double values on new AMD cpu.
Reviewed-by: sgoldman, never

Summary: (for Serguei) Allow for Linux builds with Sun Studio Linux compilers
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, ohair

Summary: T_ADDRESS size is defined as 'int' size (4 bytes) but C2 use it for raw pointers and as memory type for StoreP and LoadP nodes.
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: Use the same default number of GC threads as used by ParNewGC and ConcMarkSweepGC (i.e., the 5/8th rule).
Reviewed-by: ysr, tonyp

Summary: restore destination address in x86 32-bit checkcast_arraycopy stub
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, never

Reviewed-by: jcoomes