8001028: Improve GC option handling Summary: If there are not enough native resources to create the ReferenceHandler or Finalizer Java threads, the VM will attempt to throw an OOME before the java.lang.Class class has been initialized. This can result in assertion failures and other crashes. Move the initialization of the java.lang.Class class to just before the initialization of the java.lang.ref.Finalizer class. Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, dholmes, coleenp

Merge

8004250: replace AbstractAssembler a_byte/a_long with emit_int8/emit_int32 Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti Contributed-by: Morris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

8004330: Add missing Unsafe entry points for addAndGet() family Summary: Fix java names for getAndSet intrinsics Reviewed-by: kvn Contributed-by: aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com

8004741: Missing compiled exception handle table entry for multidimensional array allocation Summary: Added missing exception path for multidimensional array allocation and use Throwable type instead of OutOfMemoryError for allocation's exception. Reviewed-by: twisti

8004835: Improve AES intrinsics on x86 Summary: Enable AES intrinsics on non-AVX cpus, group together aes instructions in crypto stubs. Reviewed-by: roland, twisti

8005033: clear high word for integer pop count on SPARC Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti Contributed-by: Richard Reingruber <richard.reingruber@sap.com>

8004318: JEP-171: Support Unsafe fences intrinsics Summary: Add three memory-ordering intrinsics to the sun.misc.Unsafe class. Reviewed-by: twisti, kvn Contributed-by: Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev@oracle.com>

8004536: replace AbstractAssembler emit_word with emit_int16 Reviewed-by: jrose, kvn, twisti Contributed-by: Morris Meyer <morris.meyer@oracle.com>

Merge