Reviewed-by: egahlin, rbackman, dcubed, brutisso, acorn

Summary: this fix also removes the -XX:+UseStringCache option
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn, iklam

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: dcubed, fparain, dholmes
Contributed-by: NDavid Simms <david.simms@oracle.com>

Summary: Use JvmtiCachedClassFileData.
Reviewed-by: iklam, sspitsyn, dcubed

Summary: Added (sig < MAXSIGNUM) check in jsig.c
Reviewed-by: dholmes, acorn

Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed, dsimms

Summary: ARM compilers do not emit FramePointer on each native frame by default
Reviewed-by: dholmes, zgu

Reviewed-by: jcoomes

Reviewed-by: darcy, lancea, iris

Summary: Take _last_young_gc into account when deciding on starting a concurrent mark. Also reviewed-by: per.liden@oracle.com.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, johnc

Summary: Remove obsolete code that relates to ISM which was used only on Solaris 8.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Reviewed-by: tschatzl, mgerdin, stefank

Summary: Requires: 8013789: Compiler bridges, 8015402: metafactory
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, coleenp, bharadwaj

Summary: Some of qsort implementation on Linux x86 compares element to itself, which is  mistakenly treated as duplicate pointer
Reviewed-by: dcubed, acorn

Summary: Make the destructor virtual (note more non-compiler hotspot errors occur downstream)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Disable the test for SPARC and reduce the number of test iterations
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Limit the size of the code cache to at most 2G when arguments are checked; added regression test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti