Summary: Fixed a memory leak in FlatProfiler::record_thread_tick() method
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ccheung

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: declare all user-defined operator new()s within Hotspot code with the empty throw() exception specification
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, dholmes, hseigel, dcubed, kvn, ccheung
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Summary: don't re-evaluate stack bounds for main thread before install guard page
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, dlong

Summary: lower optimization level for unsafe.cpp due to MacOS Xcode 4.6.2 compiler optimization issue.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, dholmes
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

8016764: JVM does not prohibit invokespecial in c.f.v 51.0 that invokes default interface method in c.f.v 52.0
Summary: Check cfv before allowing invokespecial call to default method.
Reviewed-by: kamg, acorn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman

Reviewed-by: dcubed, mchung, hseigel

Summary: Tests checks an assertion dealing with the number of args passed in registers
Reviewed-by: mseledtsov, kvn

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Define profile-based test groups.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, mchung

Summary: Treat VS2012 the same as VS2010.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kamg, minqi

Summary: removed offending EXCEPTION_MARK calls and code cleanup
Reviewed-by: dholmes, iklam, coleenp, mseledtsov

Summary: Need to check for 0 case for InstanceKlass::_generic_signature_index.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, sla

Reviewed-by: kamg, coleenp

Summary: Add the relevant test and proofread the VM messages as well
Reviewed-by: coleenp, mseledtsov, dcubed

Summary: Return NULL on OOM from GetStringChars, GetStringUTFChars and Get<PrimitiveType>ArrayElements family of functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Explicitly specify -fno-omit-frame-pointer.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Make tests query a new WhiteBox API to see if NMT detail is supported, and behave properly if it is not supported.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Added support for statically linked agents
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, bobv, coleenp