Summary: Change the flag -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal to product and add new product flag -XX:+PrintFlagsInitial.
Reviewed-by: phh, ysr
Contributed-by: gbenson@redhat.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: never
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: C2 needs some additional optimizations to be able to handle MethodHandle invokes and invokedynamic instructions at the best performance.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: C2 implementation for invokedynamic support.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: EA incorrectly identifies escape state of an allocation passed as call argument.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: During the work for 6829187 we have fixed a number of basic bugs which are logically grouped with 6815692 and 6858164 but which must be reviewed and pushed separately.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: We need a way to walk chained method handles in the JVM to call the right methods and to generate required bytecode adapters for the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Zero currently won't build on zSeries or PowerPC machines with assertions turned on.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Smaller fixes to ensure that Zero still works with non-standard options.
Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NGary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

Summary: Update the HS17 build number to 06
Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Reworked the concurrent refinement: threads activation, feedback-based threshold adjustment, other miscellaneous fixes.
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, tonyp

6895168: JCK api/signaturetest/sigtest.basic.html#basic test fails for jdk 5.0 with HS 16 in nightly build
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, jrose

6899467: System property java.class.version out-of-sync with VM for jdk 5.0 with HS 16 in nightly build
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, dholmes, ysr

Summary: See bugzilla issue 100097
Reviewed-by: tbell
Contributed-by: NJesse Glick <jesse.glick@sun.com>

Summary: Source changes for older compilers plus makefile changes.
Reviewed-by: xlu

Summary: changes for method handles and invokedynamic
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: If a JVMTI agent asks for version 1.0, then it should get version 1.0 semantics.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair

Summary: Return error on invalid JVMTI_PHASE instead of asserting.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ohair