Summary: Change class version to version accepted by JDK 8.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, hseigel

Summary: Fixed missing null checks on the result of CodeCache::find_blob() found by Parfait.
Reviewed-by: shade, kvn

Summary: Fixed a missing null check on the return value of AddPNode::Ideal_base_and_offset() found by Parfait.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed a missing null check on n->in(0) found by Parfait.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed a missing null check on the return value of MachNodeGenerator() found by Parfait.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed a missing null check on the return value of InitializeNode::allocation() found by Parfait.
Reviewed-by: zmajo

Summary: We need to check ConstMethod::method() for NULL before dereferencing.
Reviewed-by: kvn, iignatyev

Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann
Contributed-by: tatiana.pivovarova@oracle.com

Summary: Make appending found dead BasicHashtableEntrys to the free list atomic.
Reviewed-by: ehelin, shade

Reviewed-by: kbarrett, stefank

Reviewed-by: dholmes, ehelin

8171194: Exception "Duplicate field name&signature in class file" should report the name and signature of the field
Summary: Added code to emit name and signature of duplicate field in java.lang.ClassFormatError exception message
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

8173373: C1: NPE is thrown instead of LinkageError when accessing inaccessible field on NULL receiver
Summary: Deoptimize if receiver null check of unresolved field access fails to throw NoClassDefFoundError instead of NPE.
Reviewed-by: vlivanov

8143897: Weblogic12medrec assert(handler_address == SharedRuntime::compute_compiled_exc_handler(nm, pc, exception, force_unwind, true)) failed: Must be the same
Reviewed-by: kvn, mdoerr

Reviewed-by: dholmes, ecaspole, kvn

Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanbur

Summary: Using new sysconf and sysinfo API on Solaris 12, avoid using libpicl and libkstat.
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Add support for VM_Version::L1_data_cache_line_size().
Reviewed-by: dsimms, kvn, dholmes

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: vlivanov

Summary: Re-application of the change in JDK-8152271.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, sspitsyn

Summary: Use the Events::log function to save redefined classes for output to the hs_err file
Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: aph, dsamersoff

Summary: Use Patching_lock to synchronize access between set_code() and clear_code().
Reviewed-by: kvn, dlong

Summary: Fix method searches to handle static, private instance and overpass
Reviewed-by: acorn