Summary: Fixed incremental build makefiles generated by buildtree.make. Consolidated unix build.sh.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: test from 8009761 shouldn't be run with -Xcomp
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: roland, kvn
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Summary: Fix shorten_branches() to accurately count an initial nop that may be inserted in a block that starts with a safepoint.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Execute vzeroupper instruction after JNI call and on exits in jit compiled code which use 256bit vectors.
Reviewed-by: roland

Reviewed-by: dholmes, sla, ctornqvi

Summary: Improve EC_TRACE and RC_TRACE* to use the do-while(0) trick for statement-like macro
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dcubed

8010934: assert failure in c1_LinearScan.cpp: "asumption: non-Constant instructions have only virtual operands"
Summary: incorrect code to skip some ArrayLength instructions in LIRGenerator
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Added a new test_env.txt file to capture common shell variable. Added concept of COMPILEJAVA for use when TESTJAVA is a JRE. If COMPILEJAVA not set then TESTJAVA will be the default with assumption it is a JDK.
Reviewed-by: kvn, brutisso, coleenp

Reviewed-by: mgerdin, stefank

Summary: always transform AddP nodes in IdealKit by calling _gvn.transform().
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Remove old kernel build targets and VS C++ projects created by create.bat on Windows
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sla

Reviewed-by: dcubed, rbackman
Contributed-by: NJoel Borggren-Franck <joel.franck@oracle.com>

Summary: Put UseSplitVerifier option on the deprecated list.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kmo, acorn

Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: niclas.adlertz@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: Remove support for verification of class files with version 52 and above from type inference verifier.
Reviewed-by: acorn, hseigel

8010667: Non-zero padding is not allowed in splitverifier for tableswitch/lookupswitch instructions.
Summary: Don't check the padding bits if class file version is >= 51.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, coleenp

Summary: Added @run tag so that it actually runs the test, also fixed broken command line and incorrect parsing. Also reviewed by gerard.ziemski@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, zgu

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: add guarantee() to nmethod constructor and checks to ensure CodeCache has space before allocation
Reviewed-by: kvn