Reviewed-by: kvn, stefank, rbackman, twisti
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: support for strings that have same life-time as code that uses them.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

Summary: add null check to signal handler
Reviewed-by: dcubed

Summary: add guarantee() to oop_result inlines
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add guarantee() to add_generation_memory_pool()
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add guarantee() to as_instance_type()
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: add a missing change from JDK-7054512 so that Oop.iterateFields() works with UseCompressedKlassPointers
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland
Contributed-by: yunda.mly@taobao.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: add cases for _MSC_VER == 1600 and 1700
Reviewed-by: zgu

Summary: add null pointer check in signal handler
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Store metadata on ClassFileParser instance to be cleaned up by destructor.  This enabled some refactoring of the enormous parseClassFile function.
Reviewed-by: jmasa, acorn

Summary: -Xshare:dump was creating a Symbol in C_heap.  There's an assert there that jdk jprt wasn't hitting because it was only done in product
Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel, iklam

Summary: Some zeroing was missed for bug 8003553, causing empty stack traces and Xcom crashes, add back zeroing to metablock
Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman

Reviewed-by: johnc

Summary: Print the concurrent phase start markers for CMS when PrintGCDetails is enabled, not only if both PrintGCDetails and PrintGCTimeStamps are.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, jmasa

Summary: Take the initial heap size into account when checking the heap size for compressed oops
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kvn, hseigel, ctornqvi

Summary: The minimal JVM is printing a warning message for default settings when it should quitely ignore them.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Summary: Disable @Contended support for static fields
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Summary: Don't scan pages outside the given range.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, jmasa

8009282: Assertion "assert(used_and_free == capacity_bytes) failed: Accounting is wrong" failed with -XX:+Verbose -XX:+TraceMetadataChunkAllocation
Summary: Assertion is only valid when at a safepoint, adjust accordingly.
Reviewed-by: stefank, jmasa, tamao

8009723: CMS logs "concurrent mode failure" twice when using (disabling) -XX:-UseCMSCompactAtFullCollection
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, ehelin, brutisso