Summary: For *store bytecodes, compare incoming, not outgoing, type state with exception handlers' stack maps.
Reviewed-by: acorn, dholmes

8056071: compiler/whitebox/IsMethodCompilableTest.java fails with 'method() is not compilable after 3 iterations'
Summary: Always use MDO if valid and always compile trivial methods with C1 if available.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

7192406: JSR 292: C2 needs exact return type information for invokedynamic and invokehandle call sites
Reviewed-by: kvn

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: dholmes, bdelsart

Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, kvn, dcubed

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

Summary: Add new CP types CONSTANT_MethodHandle, CONSTANT_MethodType; extend 'ldc' bytecode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

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

Summary: Fix errors in 6939207.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Factored cleanup of instruction decode which prepares for enhanced ldc semantics.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified starting July 2008 to Dec 2008
Reviewed-by: katleman, ohair, tbell

Summary: Add end-of-buffer indicator for paths used by the verifier
Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp