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

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

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: chegar, dsamersoff, khazra

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

Reviewed-by: tbell, darcy

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>

8016446: Improve forEach/replaceAll for Map, HashMap, Hashtable, IdentityHashMap, WeakHashMap, TreeMap, ConcurrentMap
Reviewed-by: forax, mduigou, psandoz
Contributed-by: NMike Duigou &lt;mike.duigou@oracle.com&gt;, Remi Forax <forax@univ-mlv.fr>

Reviewed-by: alanb, ahgross

Reviewed-by: wetmore

Reviewed-by: srl, bae

Summary: Add .local to derived effective hostnames without dot
Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: chegar, dholmes

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

Reviewed-by: anthony, serb

Reviewed-by: mduigou

Reviewed-by: anthony

Reviewed-by: sla, sergei

Reviewed-by: psandoz, briangoetz, mduigou, plevart

Reviewed-by: okutsu, sherman

Reviewed-by: jrose

Reviewed-by: chegar, alanb, psandoz
Contributed-by: NDoug Lea &lt;dl@cs.oswego.edu&gt;, Tristan Yan &lt;tristan.yan@oracle.com&gt;, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty@oracle.com>

Summary: Accelerate conversion to string by means of Schoenhage recursive base conversion.
Reviewed-by: bpb, alanb
Contributed-by: NAlan Eliasen <eliasen@mindspring.com>

6469160: (fmt) general (%g) formatting of zero (0.0) with precision 0 or 1 throws ArrayOutOfBoundsException
Summary: For zero value ensure than an unpadded zero character is passed to Formatter.addZeros()
Reviewed-by: iris, darcy
Contributed-by: NBrian Burkhalter <brian.burkhalter@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: alanb

Summary: In doubleValue() and floatValue() replace converting to String and parsing to Double or Float with direct conversion into IEEE 754 bits.
Reviewed-by: bpb, drchase, martin
Contributed-by: NLouis Wasserman <lowasser@google.com>

4396272: Parsing doubles fails to follow IEEE for largest decimal that should yield 0
7039391: Use Math.ulp in FloatingDecimal
Summary: Correct rounding and monotonicity problems in floats and doubles
Reviewed-by: bpb, martin
Contributed-by: NDmitry Nadezhin &lt;dmitry.nadezhin@oracle.com&gt;, Louis Wasserman <lowasser@google.com>

Reviewed-by: valeriep

Reviewed-by: chegar, jzavgren

Reviewed-by: alanb, chegar
Contributed-by: NJohn Zavgren &lt;john.zavgren@oracle.com&gt;, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: dl, dholmes, plevart

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

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

Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: alanb
Contributed-by: martinrb@google.com

Reviewed-by: dholmes, chegar, forax, darcy, mduigou

Reviewed-by: anthony, serb

8012986: Right-bias range spliterators for large ranges
Reviewed-by: mduigou

8011950: java.io.File.createTempFile enters infinite loop when passed invalid data
Reviewed-by: alanb