merge of panama branches

[Paul Sandoz]

Thanks for doing this. I encountered no problems building/testing the vectorIntrinsics branch.

Paul.

> On Apr 11, 2018, at 10:43 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I've just completed merging all panama branches with upstream changes from jdk/jdk. I had to manually resolve a bunch of conflicts. Please let me know in case something looks off (I did some basic build and test runs and everything seemed ok).
> 
> Cheers
> Maurizio
>