Summary: to use new InternalError constructor with cause chainning
Reviewed-by: alanb, ksrini, xuelei, neugens
Contributed-by: sebastian.sickelmann@gmx.de

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Do not synchronize on self while writing hash table elements
Reviewed-by: alanb, mduigou
Contributed-by: NNeil Richards <neil.richards@ngmr.net>

Reviewed-by: xdono

Reviewed-by: darcy, lancea, alanb, briangoetz, mduigou, mchung

Reviewed-by: darcy, weijun

Summary: Write overflow-conscious array resizing code
Reviewed-by: chegar

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

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: dholmes