jrose [Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:39:22 -0700] rev 2256
6813212: factor duplicated assembly code for general subclass check (for 6655638)
Summary: Code in interp_masm, stubGenerator, c1_LIRAssembler, and AD files moved into MacroAssembler.
Reviewed-by: kvn
twisti [Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:35:17 -0700] rev 2255
6378821: bitCount() should use POPC on SPARC processors and AMD+10h
Summary: bitCount() should use POPC on SPARC processors where POPC is implemented directly in hardware.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never
kvn [Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:37:46 -0700] rev 2254
6791178: Specialize for zero as the compressed oop vm heap base
Summary: Use zero based compressed oops if java heap is below 32gb and unscaled compressed oops if java heap is below 4gb.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti, jcoomes, coleenp
twisti [Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:16:13 -0700] rev 2253
6812587: Use auxv to determine SPARC hardware features on Solaris
Summary: A similar function to getisax(2) should be used to determine all possible instruction set extensions.
Reviewed-by: never, kvn