8012927: 'assert(nbits == 32 || (-(1 << nbits-1) <= x && x < ( 1 << nbits-1))) failed: value out of range' in interpreter initialization.
Summary: Change br_null_short() to br_null().
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel

Summary: Lambda changes; spec 0.6.2 - remove the restriction that was added as part of recent changes made to support upcoming changes to compilation of lambda methods.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: anti-delta fix for 8010992 until 8012902 can be fixed
Reviewed-by: acorn, minqi, rdurbin

Reviewed-by: dholmes, rbackman
Contributed-by: peter.allwin@oracle.com

Summary: Lazily create and maintain the MemberNameTable to be able to update MemberName's
Reviewed-by: coleenp, jrose, dholmes
Contributed-by: serguei.spitsyn@oracle.com

Summary: disable use of global operator new and new[] which could cause unexpected exception and escape from NMT tracking.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, zgu
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Summary: Lambda changes; spec 0.6.2 - Allow static invokestatic and invokespecial calls to InterfaceMethod_ref
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Summary: NMT value objects should use VALUE_OBJ_CLASS_SPEC instead of deriving from _ValueObj
Reviewed-by: coleenp, hseigel, dholmes

8012455: Missing time and date stamps for PrintGCApplicationConcurrentTime and PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime
Summary: also reviewed by: kirk@kodewerk.com, brandon@twitter.com
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, stefank, johnc

Summary: In do_oop_store the uncompressed value of the oop being stored needs to be preserved and passed to g1_write_barrier_post. This is necessary for the heap region cross check to work correctly.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, johnc
Contributed-by: NMartin Doerr <martin.doerr@sap.com>

Summary: Increase default string table size to 60013 for 64-bit platforms.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

Reviewed-by: iris, mduigou, jjg

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

8012052: java/lang/invoke/6987555/Test6987555.java crashes with assert(mcs != NULL) failed: MethodCounters cannot be NULL.
Summary: Skip counter decay if the MethodCounters is NULL in NonTieredCompPolicy::delay_compilation().
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn, kmo, shade

Summary: add missing ResourceMark under TraceMethodHandles in LinkResolver
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Remove continous free block requirement
Reviewed-by: kvn