Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, twisti
Contributed-by: NRoman Kennke <rkennke@redhat.com>

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

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>

Summary: use x87 instructions to implement exp() and pow() in interpreter/c1/c2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

Summary: Pass the codeBuffer to the Stub constructor, and adapts the disassembler to print the comments.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Summary: A referent object that is only weakly reachable at the start of concurrent marking but is re-attached to the strongly reachable object graph during marking may not be marked as live. This can cause the reference object to be processed prematurely and leave dangling pointers to the referent object. Implement a read barrier for the java.lang.ref.Reference::referent field by intrinsifying the Reference.get() method, and intercepting accesses though JNI, reflection, and Unsafe, so that when a non-null referent object is read it is also logged in an SATB buffer.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov, never, tonyp, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, dcubed

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

Summary: A collection of portability improvements including shared code support for PPC, ARM platforms, software floating point, cross compilation support and improvements in error crash detail.
Reviewed-by: phh, never, coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType; extend 'ldc' bytecode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

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

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: 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: 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: developed a reexecute logic for the interpreter to reexecute the bytecode when deopt happens
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, jrose, twisti

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