Summary: Catch missing-because-illegal case for itable entries and use an exception-throwing method instead of null.
Reviewed-by: acorn, jrose, coleenp

8025260: Methodhandles/JSR292: NullPointerException (NPE) thrown instead of AbstractMethodError (AME)
Summary: Copied null-checks from templateInterpreter_CPU into methodHandles_CPU
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti

Summary: Regression test for 8000311. Verifies that PLABStats works with zero parallel GC threads.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, johnc
Contributed-by: NFilipp Zhinkin <filipp.zhinkin@oracle.com>

Summary: Fix off-by-one error
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

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

6875866: Intrinsic for String.indexOf() is broken on x86 with SSE4.2
Summary: Modify String intrinsic methods to pass char[] pointers instead of string oops.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: delay dead code elimination in set_req_X to make it safe
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: The C2 compiler leads to wrong results on solaris-i486 (32-bit) for a testcase given in the CR.
Reviewed-by: never, rasbold

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose