Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Provide additional detail in VerifyError messages
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, acorn

Summary: Change constMethodOop::_exception_table to optionally inlined u2 table.
Reviewed-by: bdelsart, coleenp, kamg

Summary: Fixed raw pointer being used after potential safepoint/GC
Reviewed-by: acorn, fparain, dholmes

Summary: Allow only current and super invokespecials of <init>
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, dcubed

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: package and class renaming only; delete unused methods and classes
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

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

Summary: move functions from hpi library to hotspot, communicate with licensees and open source community, check jdk for dependency, file CCC request
Reviewed-by: coleenp, acorn, dsamersoff

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

Summary: Allow CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic nodes to have any number of extra operands.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Update verifier to conform to spec re: reference vs. 'Object' types
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Check if klassOop != NULL rather than klass_part != NULL
Reviewed-by: kamg, never

Summary: Add JVM_CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic records to constant pool to determine per-instruction BSMs.
Reviewed-by: twisti

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: Fix errors in 6939207.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

6693236: A class file whose version number is greater than to 50.0 must be verified using the typechecker
Summary: Disable failover verification for classfiles >= v51
Reviewed-by: never, acorn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

Reviewed-by: kamg, phh

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: low-level privileged sun.misc.Unsafe.defineAnonymousClass
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: Added a clause to allow null to be an operand to the arraylength bytecode
Reviewed-by: sbohne, coleenp