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>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>

Summary: This adds support for JSR 292 to Zero.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: IcedTea contains a now-unmaintained ARM-specific interpreter and part of that interpreter was accidentally incorporated in one of the webrevs when Zero was initially imported.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Reviewed-by: kvn, chrisphi, twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, dcubed

Summary: gcc bug worksaround for IA64 no longer needed
Reviewed-by: andrew

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

Summary: A number of fixes for Zero and Shark.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

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

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

Summary: Missed Zero changes for 6943304.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: coleenp, never, gbenson

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, apetrusenko, never, dcubed

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: ed@camswl.com

Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 03/09
Reviewed-by: katleman, tbell, ohair

Summary: I have collected some typos I have found while looking at the code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Fix compilation errors from latest gcc in CC_INTERP including offending missing void* cast.
Reviewed-by: xlu

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: decouple set_klass() with zeroing the gap when compressed.
Reviewed-by: kvn, ysr, jrose

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