Summary: keep intermediate node alive till the end of the graph construction using dummy hook node trick
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: vladimir.x.ivanov@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: add missing copyright notes to the regression test file.
Reviewed-by: twisti, johnc

Summary: When constructing input vector use type of vector's operation which use it since element's sizes should match.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: twisti
Contributed-by: NVolker Simonis <volker.simonis@gmail.com>

Summary: too optimistic inlining decision confuses local value numbering.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: Leave i_o attached to slow allocation call when there are no i_o users after the call.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Summary: In CEE, ensure if and common successor state are at the same inline level
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: GC crash for explicit stack overflow checks after a C2I transition.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, never
Contributed-by: yang02.wang@sap.com, bertrand.delsart@oracle.com

Summary: Use -Xss224k instead of -Xss128k.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: iveresov, kvn

Summary: Instruction countTrailingZerosL() should use iRegIsafe dst register since it is used in long arithmetic.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Summary: Retry the call to fast_exception_handler_bci_for() after it returned with a pending exception. Don't cache the exception handler pc computed by compute_compiled_exc_handler() if the handler is for another (nested) exception.
Reviewed-by: kamg, kvn
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Move the inlinee invoke notification callback into inlinee preamble
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Exact limit of empty loop calculated incorrectly.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Add regression test.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Summary: Run test only on systems with 2Gbyte or more memory. Don't zap heap to reduce execution time.
Reviewed-by: iveresov

Summary: Do not move data nodes which are attached to a predicate test to a dominating test.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: check for single stepping when dispatching invokes from method handles
Reviewed-by: coleenp, twisti, kvn, dsamersoff

Summary: Test is modified to reduce number of iterations in test5() and test6().
Reviewed-by: never, iveresov

Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

Summary: take into account memory dependencies when clonning nodes in clone_up_backedge_goo().
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Keep 'ne' test in Counted loop when we can't guarantee during compilation that init < limit.
Reviewed-by: never

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

Summary: Fix initialization of a newly-allocated array with arraycopy
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: Use ins_encode %{ %} form to encode cadd_cmpLTMask() instruction and remove unused code.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: fixed tests.
Reviewed-by: iveresov, never

7042153: guarantee(x_compare_res != Constant::not_comparable) failed: incomparable constants in IfOp
Summary: Handle IfOps folding properly in case of unloaded constant oop arguments
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: The test should compare with -0.0f.
Reviewed-by: never, iveresov

Summary: Fix integer overflow problem in the code generated by loop optimizer.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

Summary: Remove control from loads in String.equals intrinsic and cast argument to not-null.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: In Ideal() method of String intrinsics nodes look for TypeAryPtr::CHARS memory slice if memory is MergeMem. Do not unroll a loop with String intrinsics code.
Reviewed-by: never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Both JSR 292 compiler tests were moved with 6839872 to the jdk repository
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: copy small (<8) strings on stack if str+16 crosses a page boundary and load from stack into XMM. Back up pointer when loading string's tail.
Reviewed-by: never