Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp
Contributed-by: axel.siebenborn@sap.com, martin.doerr@sap.com

Summary: ELFv2 ABI used by the little endian PowerPC64 on Linux.
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: asmundak@google.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Implement missing function Matcher::pass_original_key_for_aes() in ppc64 ad file.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, kvn
Contributed-by: martin.doerr@sap.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add ConstantTableBase node edge after parameters and before jvms. Adapt jvms offsets.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: On PPC64 use tdi instruction that does a compare and raises SIGTRAP for NULL and range checks.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed Implicit NULL check optimization for AIX, where the page at address '0' is only write-protected.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: fix CPP-interpreter after CheckUnhandledOops was re-enabled in the fastdebug build
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, lfoltan

Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, sspitsyn

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Some platforms, as ppc and s390x/zArch require that 32-bit ints are passed as 64-bit values to C functions. This change adds support to adapt the signature and to issue proper casts to c2-compiled stubs. The functions are used in generate_native_wrapper(). Adapt signature used by the compiler as in PhaseIdealLoop::intrinsify_fill().
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: With this change the HotSpot core build works on Linux/PPC64. The VM succesfully executes simple test programs.
Reviewed-by: kvn