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

Summary: Add the -Wunused-function flag and remove a number of unused functions.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, kvn

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: 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: Use uncast node equivalence checks in CmpUNode::sub.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Summary: optimize this code pattern obj.getClass() == A.class.
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Summary: use x87 instructions to implement exp() and pow() in interpreter/c1/c2.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, twisti

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

Summary: optimize cmp_ne(xor(X,1),0) to cmp_eq(X,0) only for boolean values X.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

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

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

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

Summary: Check for an object array of interface in CmpPNode::sub().
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: check for not-nullness after proving that types are unrelated
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: fixed few addP node type and narrow oop type problems.
Reviewed-by: rasbold, 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

Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: CmpP could be optimized out if it compares new allocated objects.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never, rasbold