Summary: Due to subtle synchronization issues between LogManager & Logger class initialization the global logger doesn't have its 'manager' field initialized until the LogManager is initialized. This fix will ensure that the global logger has its 'manager' field set when getGlobal() is called.
Reviewed-by: mchung, plevart

8017463: [TEST_BUG] 2 tests from tools/pack200/ remain about 1 GB of data in work directory after execution
Reviewed-by: mchung

Summary: This patch makes sure that LoggerContext instances created for applets have a root and global logger.
Reviewed-by: mchung

Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: lancea, rriggs

Reviewed-by: lancea

Reviewed-by: lancea, alanb

Summary: Replace array of ArrayList of BigIntegers with a volatile two-dimensional BigInteger array eliminate the synchronization of getRadixConversionCache()
Reviewed-by: plevart, shade, bpb, alanb
Contributed-by: NPeter Levart &lt;peter.levart@gmail.com&gt;, Dmitry Nadezhin &lt;dmitry.nadezhin@oracle.com&gt;, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: xuelei

8014045: test/java/lang/management/PlatformLoggingMXBean/LoggingMXBeanTest.java failing intermittently
Summary: this test was failing because it didn't take into account the fact that Loggers could be garbage collected.
Reviewed-by: mchung

Reviewed-by: lancea, ksrini

Reviewed-by: briangoetz

Reviewed-by: darcy, mchung

Reviewed-by: dcubed, sla, mchung

Reviewed-by: lancea

Summary: Convert to {@code ...} tags. convert package.html to package-info.java.
Reviewed-by: darcy

Reviewed-by: chegar, dsamersoff, khazra

Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: mduigou
Contributed-by: NBrian Goetz &lt;brian.goetz@oracle.com&gt;, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: tbell, darcy

Reviewed-by: mgronlun, erikj

Reviewed-by: sla, tbell

Summary: Prepend a '/' to file when path is empty
Reviewed-by: chegar, khazra

Summary: Override Object.hashCode()
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar

Summary: Implement hashCode() in classes emitting warnings
Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar

Summary: Add hashCode() methods to ListenerInfo and WildcardListenerInfo classes
Reviewed-by: dfuchs, alanb, sjiang, chegar

4646474: BigInteger.pow() algorithm slow in 1.4.0
Summary: Implement Karatsuba and 3-way Toom-Cook multiplication as well as exponentiation using Karatsuba and Toom-Cook squaring.
Reviewed-by: alanb, bpb, martin
Contributed-by: NAlan Eliasen <eliasen@mindspring.com>

Reviewed-by: alanb