Reviewed-by: erikj

Summary: Made EMPTY_STACK non-const, so it will not be placed in read-only BSS section.
Reviewed-by: stuefe, martin
Contributed-by: zhaixiang@loongson.cn

Summary: Generate debug info for assembler files as needed.
Reviewed-by: erikj

Summary: A new test verifies that tracing output occurs with the switch enabled.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, phh
Contributed-by: NXin Liu <xxinliu@amazon.com>

Summary: Events can trigger before ResourceMark is usable: move use from writeEvent() to print_val().
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ysuenaga, mlarsson

Reviewed-by: tbell

Reviewed-by: tbell

8204966: [TESTBUG] hotspot/test/compiler/whitebox/IsMethodCompilableTest.java test fails with -XX:CompileThreshold=1
Summary: enforce lower bound on number of loop iterations used to trigger OSR
Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev

Summary: Add os::vsnprintf and os::snprintf.
Reviewed-by: kbarrett, lfoltan, stuefe, mlarsson

Summary: update call to disassembler() function to match new signature used by Binutils
Reviewed-by: gromero, kvn

Summary: replace Unicode left/right double quote pair with normal ASCII double quotes
Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, kvn
Contributed-by: NLeslie Zhai <lesliezhai-hotspot@llvm.org.cn>

Reviewed-by: simonis, adinn, jrose

Summary: Created tests for the feature
Reviewed-by: mseledtsov

Reviewed-by: tschatzl

Summary: Only produce those files if STRIP_POLICY != no_strip
Reviewed-by: erikj

Reviewed-by: aefimov

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes

8206454: [8u] os::current_stack_pointer() fails to compile on later Windows compilers (warning C4172: returning address of local variable)
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kbarrett

Reviewed-by: bobv, dbuck

Summary: Only add .gnu_debuglink sections when there is some stripping done.
Reviewed-by: erikj, dholmes

Summary: Add resolved_references and init_lock as hidden static field in class so root is found.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

8204872: [8u] VS2017: more instances of "error C3680: cannot concatenate user-defined string literals with mismatched literal suffix identifiers"
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: chegar, jeff, robm