6961690: load oops from constant table on SPARC Summary: oops should be loaded from the constant table of an nmethod instead of materializing them with a long code sequence. Reviewed-by: never, kvn

7003554: (tiered) assert(is_null_object() || handle() != NULL) failed: cannot embed null pointer Summary: C1 with profiling doesn't check whether the MDO has been really allocated, which can silently fail if the perm gen is full. The solution is to check if the allocation failed and bailout out of inlining or compilation. Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6998985: faulty generic arraycopy on windows x86_64: 4th arg overwritten with oop Reviewed-by: kvn, never

6875026: CTW failure jdk6_18/hotspot/src/share/vm/c1/c1_LinearScan.cpp:5486 Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

7002666: eclipse CDT projects crash with compressed oops Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti

Merge

6985015: C1 needs to support compressed oops Summary: This change implements compressed oops for C1 for x64 and sparc. The changes are mostly on the codegen level, with a few exceptions when we do access things outside of the heap that are uncompressed from the IR. Compressed oops are now also enabled with tiered. Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn, never, phh

7001363: java/dyn/InvokeDynamic should not be a well-known class in the JVM Summary: Because of the removal of language support, the JDK 7 API for JSR 292 no longer includes a public class named java/dyn/InvokeDynamic. Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn

7007229: Fix warnings with VS2010 in compressedStream.cpp Summary: An interference between a fix for 6993125 and disabled optimization in compressedStream.cpp produces a warning with VS2010. Disable the warning for the code fragment for which the optimizations are disabled. Reviewed-by: kvn

Merge