Summary: Change types of above methods and field to InstanceKlass and remove unneeded casts from the source files.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp, zgu
Contributed-by: harold.seigel@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Reviewed-by: jrose, coleenp, jmasa, kvn

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>

6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: NJohn Rose &lt;john.r.rose@oracle.com&gt;, Christian Thalinger &lt;christian.thalinger@oracle.com&gt;, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

Summary: Should print to passed in stream not tty
Reviewed-by: dholmes, never
Contributed-by: NKrystal Mok <sajia@taobao.com>

Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, coleenp

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: twisti

Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp, twisti, stefank

Summary: Removed.
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, brutisso

Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Add JVM_CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic records to constant pool to determine per-instruction BSMs.
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: split MethodHandle.invoke into invokeExact and invokeGeneric; also clean up JVM-to-Java interfaces
Reviewed-by: twisti

Summary: Fix several crashers, remove needless paths for boxed-style bootstrap method call, refactor & simplify APIs for rewriter constantPoolOop, remove sun.dyn.CallSiteImpl
Reviewed-by: kvn

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

Summary: invokedynamic instruction (JSR 292 RI)
Reviewed-by: twisti, never

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

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