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

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

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

Summary: Remove PermGen, allocate meta-data in metaspace linked to class loaders, rewrite GC walking, rewrite and rename metadata to be C++ classes
Reviewed-by: jmasa, stefank, never, coleenp, kvn, brutisso, mgerdin, dholmes, jrose, twisti, roland
Contributed-by: Njmasa &lt;jon.masamitsu@oracle.com&gt;, stefank &lt;stefan.karlsson@oracle.com&gt;, mgerdin &lt;mikael.gerdin@oracle.com&gt;, never <tom.rodriguez@oracle.com>

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

Reviewed-by: never, kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, never, bdelsart

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

Summary: Add new short branch instruction to Hotspot sparc assembler.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jrose

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: C2 implementation for invokedynamic support.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: Fix eliminate_card_mark() to eliminate G1 pre/post barriers.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Used the outer loop frequency in frequencies checks in RA.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

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

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

Summary: Remove DecodeNNode::decode() and EncodePNode::encode() methods.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

Summary: verify the adr_type of a mach node was not changed
Reviewed-by: rasbold, never

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