Summary: Enhance method resolution and resulting data structures, plus some refactoring.
Reviewed-by: twisti, acorn, jrose

Summary: declare all user-defined operator new()s within Hotspot code with the empty throw() exception specification
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, dholmes, hseigel, dcubed, kvn, ccheung
Contributed-by: lois.foltan@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Do patching rather bailing out for unlinked call with appendix
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

8022283: Assertion failed: assert(is_loaded() && field->holder()->is_loaded() && klass()->is_subclass_of (field->holder())) failed: invalid access
Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

Summary: Add a list of nmethods to the RSet for a region that contain references into the region. Skip scanning the code cache during root scanning and scan the nmethod lists during RSet scanning instead.
Reviewed-by: tschatzl, brutisso, mgerdin, twisti, kvn

Summary: C1's GetUnsafeObject G1 pre-barrier uses the wrong type to read the klass pointer.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Summary: add intrinsics using new instruction to interpreter, C1, C2, for suitable x86; add test
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: modify declaration of 'swap' overloading; dodge optimizer bug in c1_LIR.cpp
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp
Contributed-by: jeremymanson@google.com, calvin.cheung@oracle.com

Summary: added guarantee()
Reviewed-by: kvn

8014430: JRE crashes instead of stop compilation on full Code Cache. Internal Error (c1_Compiler.cpp:87)
Summary: Disable client compiler and switch to interpreter if there is not enough free space in the code cache.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: With NPG, const KlassOop klass which is in fact a definition converted to Klass* const, which is not the original intention. The right usage is converting them to const Klass*.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn
Contributed-by: yumin.qi@oracle.com

Summary: Array bound check elimination's in block motion doesn't always reset its data structures from one step to the other.
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: missing #ifdef ASSERT
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: loop invariant code motion may move load before store to the same field
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Allocate the method's profiling related metadata until they are needed.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, roland

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

8010934: assert failure in c1_LinearScan.cpp: "asumption: non-Constant instructions have only virtual operands"
Summary: incorrect code to skip some ArrayLength instructions in LIRGenerator
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: when possible optimize out array bound checks, inserting predicates when needed.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Nthomaswue <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>

Summary: ASSERT and other symbols used incorrectly with #if are supposed to be defined or not.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mikael

Summary: Corrected formatted prints to have matching arguments, removed dead print_frame_layout function
Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes

Summary: missing test for loaded klass in c1
Reviewed-by: kvn

Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov
Contributed-by: NIgor Ignatyev <igor.ignatyev@oracle.com>

Summary: In LIR_OpVisitState::visit() the receiver operand is processed twice
Reviewed-by: roland, vladidan

Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

Summary: Define jlong as long on all LP64 platforms and add JLONG_FORMAT macro.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, mikael, kvn

Summary: Move InlineSynchronizedMethods flag from develop to product
Reviewed-by: kvn, vladidan
Contributed-by: NAlexander Harlap <alexander.harlap@oracle.com>

Summary: avoid printing inlining decision when compilation fails
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland

Summary: assert is triggered when number of register based arguments passed to a java method exceeds 16.
Reviewed-by: roland, vladidan

Summary: Add three memory-ordering intrinsics to the sun.misc.Unsafe class.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Fixed emitting and parsing
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: Removed will_link and changed all calls to is_loaded().
Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Remove function Klass::cast() and calls to it.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

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

Summary: add LogCompilation support in C1 - both client and tiered mode.
Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn

Summary: Capitalize these metadata types (and objArrayKlass)
Reviewed-by: stefank, twisti, kvn