Summary: when possible optimize out array bound checks, inserting predicates when needed.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Nthomaswue <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, jcoomes

Summary: add guarantee() to insert_pre_post_loops()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to disqualify_method()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to get_instance_klass_for_declared_method_holder()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to set_to_interpreted()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() checks
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add guarantee() checks to merge_state_into_bb()
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: added missing parenthesis
Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: add NULL checks for compiler name
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: add guarantee() to DoScheduling()
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, stefank, rbackman, twisti
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: add null check to signal handler
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: add guarantee() to oop_result inlines
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add guarantee() to add_generation_memory_pool()
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add guarantee() to as_instance_type()
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add a missing change from JDK-7054512 so that Oop.iterateFields() works with UseCompressedKlassPointers
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland
Contributed-by: yunda.mly@taobao.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: add cases for _MSC_VER == 1600 and 1700
Reviewed-by: zgu

Summary: add null pointer check in signal handler
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Store metadata on ClassFileParser instance to be cleaned up by destructor.  This enabled some refactoring of the enormous parseClassFile function.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, acorn

Summary: -Xshare:dump was creating a Symbol in C_heap.  There's an assert there that jdk jprt wasn't hitting because it was only done in product
Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel, iklam

Summary: Some zeroing was missed for bug 8003553, causing empty stack traces and Xcom crashes, add back zeroing to metablock
Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman