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8056900: Enhance NoClassDefFound exception messaging Summary: Add text to the message explaining the cause of the exception Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn, coleenp

8179625: [BACKOUT] of 8179305 Avoid repeated calls to JavaThread::last_frame in InterpreterRuntime Reviewed-by: hseigel

8169039: Add unit tests for BitMap search operations Summary: Added native unit test test_bitMap_search.cpp Reviewed-by: stefank, sjohanss

8178352: BitMap::get_next_zero_offset may give wrong result on Mac Summary: Invert and search initial word for trailing ones. Reviewed-by: stefank, cjplummer

8171392: Move Klass pointers outside of ConstantPool entries so ConstantPool can be read-only Summary: Added _resolved_klasses; moved _resolved_references to ConstantPoolCache, etc. Reviewed-by: coleenp, lfoltan, simonis, aph

Merge

8172970: TESTBUG: need test coverage for the JVMTI functions allowed in the start phase Summary: New JTreg test provides the necessary coverage during the start phase Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

8179305: Avoid repeated calls to JavaThread::last_frame in InterpreterRuntime Summary: Added LastFrameAccessor class Reviewed-by: dlong, dholmes

8178542: G1: VM hangs during shutdown due to mark stack overflow Summary: Removed not needed call to clear_has_overflown() to avoid inconsistent state Reviewed-by: kbarrett, sangheki

8179019: Correct range checks for command-line options ArraycopySrcPrefetchDistance and ArraycopyDstPrefetchDistance Summary: Update constraint for the command-line options. Change stubs to use register values instead of immediates. Reviewed-by: kvn

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8179235: PackageEntryTables should be created eagerly Summary: Create the PackageEntryTables in the constructor for ClassLoaderData. Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

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8177958: Possible uninitialized char* in vm_version_solaris_sparc.cpp Reviewed-by: shade, dholmes, kevinw