8186088: ConstantPoolCache::_resolved_references is not a JNIHandle
Summary: Make an OopHandle type to replace jobject to encapsulate these oop pointers in metadata and module entry.
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, dholmes, jiangli, twisti

8144448: Avoid placing CTI immediately following or preceding RDPC instruction
Summary: Best practice for new SPARC CPUs
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: phedlin@oracle.com

8181449: Fix debug.hpp / globalDefinitions.hpp dependency inversion
Summary: Refactor debug.hpp and reverse include dependency.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank, dcubed

8180181: Get rid of FAST_DISPATCH from interpreter
Reviewed-by: coleenp, tschatzl

8150388: Remove SPARC 32-bit support
Reviewed-by: hseigel, coleenp, dholmes, kvn

8172020: Internal Error (cpu/arm/vm/frame_arm.cpp:571): assert(obj == __null || Universe::heap()->is_in(obj)) failed: sanity check #
Summary: do check_and_handle_earlyret() on method return
Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, aph, adinn, simonis

8132318: -XX:TraceJumps is broken on Sparc
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Merge

8155162: java.util.zip.CRC32C Interpreter/C1 intrinsics support on SPARC
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: ahmed.khawaja@oracle.com

8154580: Save mirror in interpreter frame to enable cleanups of CLDClosure
Summary: GC walks the mirror using OopClosure rather than using CLDClosure in oops_interpreted_do()
Reviewed-by: dlong, twisti, stefank

8144693: Intrinsify StringCoding.hasNegatives() on SPARC
Summary: Implemented C2 instrinsic for StringCode.hasNegatives() on SPARC.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose, thartmann
Contributed-by: Guy Delamarter <guy.delamarter@oracle.com>

8086053: Address inconsistencies regarding ZeroTLAB
Summary: Add zero-initialization to C1 for fast TLAB refills; strenghten C2 conditions for skipping zero-initialization.
Reviewed-by: kvn, thartmann

Merge

8074457: Remove the non-Zero CPP Interpreter
Summary: Remove cppInterpreter assembly files and reorganize InterpreterGenerator includes
Reviewed-by: goetz, bdelsart

Merge

8144748: Move assembler/macroAssembler inline function definitions to corresponding inline.hpp files
Reviewed-by: kvn, coleenp

8072008: Emit direct call instead of linkTo* for recursive indy/MH.invoke* calls
Reviewed-by: jrose, dlong, aph, forax

8046936: JEP 270: Reserved Stack Areas for Critical Sections
Reviewed-by: acorn, dcubed

8143012: CRC32 Intrinsics support on SPARC
Reviewed-by: kvn, roland
Contributed-by: ahmed.khawaja@oracle.com

8141132: JEP 254: Compact Strings
Summary: Adopt a more space-efficient internal representation for strings.
Reviewed-by: alanb, bdelsart, coleenp, iklam, jiangli, jrose, kevinw, naoto, pliden, roland, smarks, twisti
Contributed-by: Brent Christian <brent.christian@oracle.com>, Vivek Deshpande <vivek.r.deshpande@intel.com>, Tobias Hartmann <tobias.hartmann@oracle.com>, Charlie Hunt <charlie.hunt@oracle.com>, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov@oracle.com>, Roger Riggs <roger.riggs@oracle.com>, Xueming Shen <xueming.shen@oracle.com>, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>, Sandhya Viswanathan <sandhya.viswanathan@intel.com>

8073583: C2 support for CRC32C on SPARC
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn
Contributed-by: james.cheng@oracle.com

8004128: NPG: remove stackwalking in Threads::gc_prologue and gc_epilogue code
Summary: remove bcx and mdx handling. We no longer have to convert bytecode pointers to indices for GC since Methods aren't moved.
Reviewed-by: mgerdin, kvn

8003424: Enable Class Data Sharing for CompressedOops
8016729: ObjectAlignmentInBytes=16 now forces the use of heap based compressed oops
8005933: The -Xshare:auto option is ignored for -server
Summary: Move klass metaspace above the heap and support CDS with compressed klass ptrs.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, mgerdin, tschatzl, stefank

8002160: Compilation issue with adlc using latest SunStudio compilers
Summary: modify declaration of 'swap' overloading; dodge optimizer bug in c1_LIR.cpp
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

8008407: remove SPARC V8 support
Summary: Removed most of the SPARC V8 instructions
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8005915: Unify SERIALGC and INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS
Summary: Rename INCLUDE_ALTERNATE_GCS to INCLUDE_ALL_GCS and replace SERIALGC with INCLUDE_ALL_GCS.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, stefank

8004548: remove unused AbstractAssembler::print(Label&)
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: Bharadwaj Yadavalli <bharadwaj.yadavalli@oracle.com>

8003250: SPARC: move MacroAssembler into separate file
Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn