Summary: A dead scope  of the local needs to be identified
Reviewed-by: coleenp, vlivanov, mgronlun

Summary: For *store bytecodes, compare incoming, not outgoing, type state with exception handlers' stack maps.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Instead of 'fpclass', use cast float->int and double->long to check if value is +0.0f and +0.0d, respectively.
Reviewed-by: kvn, simonis, dlong

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, ecaspole

Reviewed-by: dholmes, erikj

8046246: the constantPoolCacheOopDesc::adjust_method_entries() used in RedefineClasses does not scale
Summary: optimize the adjust_method_entries functions by using the orig_method_idnum() function
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dcubed

Summary: Relax the guaranty for deleted methods
Reviewed-by: dcubed, coleenp

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Fixed by removing all code related to LowMemoryProtection, which removed offending code.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, minqi

Summary: Warning when not checking exceptions from function that require so, also when local refs expand beyond capacity.
Reviewed-by: dsimms

Summary: Cast arguments on printing
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, jbachorik

Summary: move free call few lines down
Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

Summary: move arm and gcc logic from open gcc.make to closed
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn

Summary: Escape state of allocated object should be always adjusted after it was passed to a method.
Reviewed-by: kvn