Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: add "arm" to the list of processors that need -fPIC
Reviewed-by: vladidan, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Check kstat data for SPARC-M.
Reviewed-by: roland

Summary: Templates need this object if not using template parameter in call
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, dholmes

Summary: Added new FormatBufferResource class to use thread's resource area for error message buffer.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Implementation of decoder for Apple's MacOSX. The implementation is based on the patch provided by Kevin Walls.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg, kevinw

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Lower compiler optimization level when compiling jvmtiClassFileReconstituter.cpp as a workaround for the solaris x86 5.10 cc bug.
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

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>

7185550: TEST: runtime/7020373/Test7020373.sh fails because there is no test/runtime/7020373/testcase.jar
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Reviewed-by: jcoomes