Summary: Also introduces the compiler oracle 'option' feature for PrintAssembly.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: added ability in C2 to expand mach nodes to several mach nodes after register allocation
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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: store in _first_index not absolute index but an index relative to the last (youngest) jvms->_scloff value
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Hide private node to block mapping using public interface
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: Add NULL checks and asserts for Type::make_ptr() returned value.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Resurrected autobox elimination code and enabled part of it by default.
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Add support for expensive nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: pass the output stream to node->dump() and everything reachable from there
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: goetz.lindenmaier@sap.com

Summary: keep an (almost) accurate running count of the reachable (live) flow graph nodes.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose, vlivanov

Summary: support of compress class pointers in the compilers.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Deleted placement new operator of Node - node(size_t, Compile *, int).
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com

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

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>

Summary: Increase vector size up to 256-bits for YMM AVX registers on x86.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, roland

Summary: Compare uncasted object nodes.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: adds store store barrier after initialization of header and body of objects.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Summary: abstracted way to declare that the MachNode has the effect of a call (kills caller save registers, preserves callee save registers)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: save/restore label and block in scratch_emit_size()
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use new short branch instruction in C2 generated code.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Remove flags which duplicate information in Node::NodeClasses.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: take into account memory dependencies when clonning nodes in clone_up_backedge_goo().
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: oops should be loaded from the constant table of an nmethod instead of materializing them with a long code sequence.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn

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

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

Summary: Add missing checks for MemBar nodes in EA.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: I have collected some typos I have found while looking at the code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Fix loop's probability. Add optimizations to avoid spilling. Change InlineSmallCode to product flag.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Add missing _instance_id settings and other EA fixes.
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

Summary: Generate addresses and implicit null checks with narrow oops to avoid decoding.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: EA and initialization optimizations could bypass these nodes.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: Optimization in CmpPNode::sub() removed the valid compare instruction because of false positive answer from detect_dominating_control().
Reviewed-by: jrose, sgoldman

Summary: Optimization in CmpPNode::sub() removed the valid compare instruction because of false positive answer from detect_dominating_control().
Reviewed-by: jrose, sgoldman

Summary: Compressed oops in instances, arrays, and headers. Code contributors are coleenp, phh, never, swamyv
Reviewed-by: jmasa, kamg, acorn, tbell, kvn, rasbold

Summary: Current EA code has several problems which have to be fixed.
Reviewed-by: jrose, sgoldman