Summary: C1 needs knowledge of T_METADATA at the LIR level.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

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>

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

Summary: use shorter instruction sequences for atomic add and atomic exchange when possible.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Issue storestore barrier before constructor return if the constructor write final field.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jrose, roland, coleenp
Contributed-by: NJiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

Summary: fix usage of input register in assembly code for store check.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Turn on aastore profiling
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Summary: ARM only, avoid assertion failures for huge constants generated by C1 shared code
Reviewed-by: never, vladidan

Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Summary: This change implements compressed oops for C1 for x64 and sparc. The changes are mostly on the codegen level, with a few exceptions when we do access things outside of the heap that are uncompressed from the IR. Compressed oops are now also enabled with tiered.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, phh

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

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Added profiling of instanceof and aastore.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, never

Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

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: C1 for SPARC needs to support JSR 292.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: The logic for x86 C1 to save the SP over MH calls is pretty straight forward but SPARC handles that differently.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: store jsr ret bci as intptr constant in c1 debug info
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: This implements JSR 292 support for C1 x86.
Reviewed-by: never, jrose, kvn

Summary: fixes an historical oddity in C1 with inlining where all of the expression stacks are kept in the topmost ValueStack instead of being in their respective ValueStacks.
Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: NChristian Wimmer <cwimmer@uci.edu>

Reviewed-by: kvn

6459804: Want client (c1) compiler for x86_64 (amd64) for faster start-up
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

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