Summary: More informative disassembly in product mode.  Also, a more consistent CompileCommand syntax.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Introduced a new write_ref_array(HeapWords* start, size_t count) method that does the requisite MemRegion range calculation so (some of the) clients of the erstwhile write_ref_array(MemRegion mr) do not need to worry. This removed all external uses of array_size(), which was also simplified and made private. Asserts were added to catch other possible issues. Further, less essential, fixes stemming from this investigation are deferred to CR 6904516 (to follow shortly in hs17).
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, jmasa

Summary: Modifications to G1 so as to allow the use of compressed oops.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, coleenp, jmasa, kvn, never, phh, tonyp

Summary: call report_java_out_of_memory("Requested array size exceeds VM limit")
Reviewed-by: tbell, dholmes, alanb, ysr
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com

Summary: preparatory but separable changes for method handles
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6700107: java/lang/Class/forName/TooManyDimensions.java crashes with SIGSEGV in c2 compiler with fastdebug
Summary: objArrayKlass::compute_modifier_flags was unnecessarily recursive
Reviewed-by: kamg

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

Summary: First mercurial integration of the code for the Garbage-First garbage collector.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, iveresov, jmasa, sgoldman, tonyp, ysr

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold