8174863: AOT: jaotc should provide an option to specify the path to the platform linker Reviewed-by: kvn

8175104: Unhandled oop in ProtectionDomainCacheTable::compute_hash Summary: Pass Handle for protection_domain as it is mostly a Handle up the call stack Reviewed-by: hseigel, jiangli, dcubed

8165753: Custom security manager, crashing wth 'java/security/AccessControlException' Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

8173465: Introduce NearLabel for branches known to be short. Reviewed-by: kvn

8169881: Remove implicit Handle conversions oop->Handle Summary: Pass THREAD to Handle as argument instead of implicit Thread::current() call. Reviewed-by: dholmes, sspitsyn

8172285: UL support for PrintCompilation Reviewed-by: kvn

8172286: CodeCacheFlushing message should be shown in UL Reviewed-by: kvn

Merge

8174203: Enable AOT Jtreg tests on Windows x86_64 Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes

8157709: NMT should use size_t version of Atomic::add Reviewed-by: kbarrett, sspitsyn

Merge

8157271: Avoid extra copy of NativeCallStack Summary: Now pass reference to NativeCallStack instead of copy. Reviewed-by: zgu, sspitsyn

8169206: TemplateInterpreter::_continuation_entry is never referenced Summary: TemplateInterpreter::_continuation_entry has been removed. Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes, fparain

8174092: Remove array-related access checks from Reflection::verify_class_access() Summary: Change the parameter type to InstanceKlass* and fix the method's callers Reviewed-by: acorn, coleenp, gtriantafill, lfoltan