Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold, sgoldman, jrose

Summary: 64-bits VM crashes with -XX:+AggresiveOpts (Escape Analysis + Compressed Oops)
Reviewed-by: never, sgoldman

Summary: Misc. 64bit and endian fixes for sparc
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, rasbold
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Optimization in CmpPNode::sub() removed the valid compare instruction because of false positive answer from detect_dominating_control().
Reviewed-by: jrose, sgoldman

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

Summary: Cardtable base can be zero, ExternalAddress can't take a NULL.

Summary: Stack allocated VM_EnableBiasedLocking op must be marked as such
Reviewed-by: xlu, acorn, never, dholmes

Summary: A check on Code length did not take into account the old sizes of the max_stack, max_locals, and code_length.
Reviewed-by: phh, sbohne

Summary: Moved makefiles out of build and build/closed into make/
Reviewed-by: kvn, ohair

Summary: Without LoopNode, exit early from loop unswitching and partial peeling
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, sgoldman

Summary: Use hg's fstatus instead of teamware's nametable to trigger cscope database rebuild
Reviewed-by: jcoomes, kamg

Summary: Rewrite frame::safe_for_sender and friends to be safe for collector/analyzer
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kvn

Summary: Don't optimize zero length array allocations at compile time.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: Fix load_signature_classes to tolerate LinkageErrors
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Summary: Corrected the wrong memory access problem and made some minor clean ups
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jcoomes

Summary: add null checks
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

Summary: C2 spends > 60% in escape analysis code during test nsk/regression/b4675027.
Reviewed-by: never

Summary: remove old private plugin interface, simplify, rework old plugin to use unchanged Gnu sources
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: Relocking of a thread-local object during deoptimization is broken
Reviewed-by: kbr, jrose, never

Summary: missing check in LoadNode::Ideal() causes infinite generation of a value Phi.
Reviewed-by: jrose, never

Summary: incorrect encoding
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold, sgoldman, jrose

Reviewed-by: jmasa, xlu

Reviewed-by: apetrusenko

6680665: bytecode Escape Analyzer produces incorrect escape information for methods without oop arguments
Summary: bcEscapeAnalyzer does not analyze methods with no oop arguments.
Reviewed-by: rasbold

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Summary: The assert misses the case CastX2P 'base' for an unsafe field reference
Reviewed-by: never, jrose

Summary: fix or remove uninitialized fields
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold

Summary: b01 -> b02
Reviewed-by: kvn