8068977: Remove unused sun.misc.Unsafe prefetch intrinsic support
Reviewed-by: kvn, vlivanov

8029233: Update copyright year to match last edit in jdk8 hotspot repository for 2013
Summary: Copyright year updated for files modified during 2013
Reviewed-by: twisti, iveresov

8026054: New type profiling points: type of return values at calls
Summary: x86 interpreter and c1 type profiling for return values at calls
Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

8011648: C1: optimized build is broken after 7153771
Summary: missing #ifdef ASSERT
Reviewed-by: kvn

7153771: array bound check elimination for c1
Summary: when possible optimize out array bound checks, inserting predicates when needed.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn, twisti
Contributed-by: thomaswue <thomas.wuerthinger@oracle.com>

7197424: update copyright year to match last edit in jdk8 hotspot repository
Summary: Update copyright year to 2012 for relevant files
Reviewed-by: dholmes, coleenp

7023898: Intrinsify AtomicLongFieldUpdater.getAndIncrement()
Summary: use shorter instruction sequences for atomic add and atomic exchange when possible.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

7023639: JSR 292 method handle invocation needs a fast path for compiled code
6984705: JSR 292 method handle creation should not go through JNI
Summary: remove assembly code for JDK 7 chained method handles
Reviewed-by: jrose, twisti, kvn, mhaupt
Contributed-by: John Rose <john.r.rose@oracle.com>, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger@oracle.com>, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt@oracle.com>

7120481: storeStore barrier in constructor with final field
Summary: Issue storestore barrier before constructor return if the constructor write final field.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, jrose, roland, coleenp
Contributed-by: Jiangli Zhou <jiangli.zhou@oracle.com>

7104177: Tiered: -XX:+PrintCanonicalization doesn't work with -XX:+TieredCompilation
Summary: Initialize printable_bci of instruction when passed to Canonicalizer
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6809483: hotspot:::method_entry are not correctly generated for "method()V"
Reviewed-by: iveresov, twisti

6989984: Use standard include model for Hospot
Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

6953144: Tiered compilation
Summary: Infrastructure for tiered compilation support (interpreter + c1 + c2) for 32 and 64 bit. Simple tiered policy implementation.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never, phh, twisti

6941466: Oracle rebranding changes for Hotspot repositories
Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

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