Summary: Added required explicit NULL checks
Reviewed-by: thartmann, kvn

Summary: Correct backport of 8159244.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Emit release barrier after String creation to prevent partially initialized object from escaping.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add a field to C2 LoadNode and StoreNode classes which indicates whether the load/store should do an acquire/release on platforms which support it.
Reviewed-by: kvn

8009303: Tiered: incorrect results in VM tests stringconcat with -Xcomp -XX:+DeoptimizeALot on solaris-amd64
Summary: Do memory flow analysis in string concat optimizier to exclude cases when computation of arguments to StringBuffer::append has side effects
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: post parse inlining driven by number of live nodes.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, jrose

Summary: collection of small changes to prepare for incremental inlining.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: keep an (almost) accurate running count of the reachable (live) flow graph nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose, vlivanov

Summary: Deleted placement new operator of Node - node(size_t, Compile *, int).
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

Summary: Don't eliminate Integer::toString() call node during String concatenation optimization if it has several uses.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: check for and skip diamond shaped NULL check code for the result of toString()
Reviewed-by: twisti, roland

Summary: Allow a version of String class that doesn't have count and offset fields.
Reviewed-by: never, coleenp

7161796: PhaseStringOpts::fetch_static_field tries to fetch field from the Klass instead of the mirror
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Missing fail flag set in strings concatenation code.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

7010070: Update all 2010 Oracle-changed OpenJDK files to have the proper copyright dates - second pass
Summary: Update the copyright to be 2010 on all changed files in OpenJDK
Reviewed-by: ohair

Reviewed-by: never, coleenp, ysr, jwilhelm

Summary: Add predicates when loop head bytecode is parsed instead of when back branch bytecode is parsed.
Reviewed-by: never

7009359: HS with -XX:+AggressiveOpts optimize new StringBuffer(null) so it does not throw NPE as expected
Summary: Bailout StringConcat optimization if null is passed to StringBuffer constructor.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: This is the renaming part of 6961697 to keep the actual changes small for review.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti