Requesting approval to integrate hs24-b48 into jdk7u40-b29.
A webrev is available at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~amurillo/7u40/hs24-b48-jdk7u40-b29.webrev/ Pre-integration testing is in progress; the integration will proceed only after SQE has analyzed the results and approved. The fixes in the proposed integration are below. All have undergone nightly testing and are already in a jdk8 repository. 7176479: G1: JVM crashes on T5-8 system with 1.5 TB heap 8009302: Mac OS X: JVM crash on infinite recursion on Appkit Thread 8014408: G1: crashes with assert assert(prev_committed_card_num == _committed_max_card_num) failed 8014669: arch specific flags not passed to some link commands 8015689: new hotspot build - hs24-b48 -- Alejandro
