--- a/src/share/vm/opto/stringopts.cpp	Fri May 11 14:54:35 2012 -0700
+++ b/src/share/vm/opto/stringopts.cpp	Mon May 14 09:36:00 2012 -0700
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2009, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2009, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -528,16 +528,6 @@
   }
 
   // Collect the types needed to talk about the various slices of memory
-  const TypeInstPtr* string_type = TypeInstPtr::make(TypePtr::NotNull, C->env()->String_klass(),
-                                                     false, NULL, 0);
-
-  const TypePtr* value_field_type = string_type->add_offset(java_lang_String::value_offset_in_bytes());
-  const TypePtr* offset_field_type = string_type->add_offset(java_lang_String::offset_offset_in_bytes());
-  const TypePtr* count_field_type = string_type->add_offset(java_lang_String::count_offset_in_bytes());
-
-  value_field_idx = C->get_alias_index(value_field_type);
-  count_field_idx = C->get_alias_index(count_field_type);
-  offset_field_idx = C->get_alias_index(offset_field_type);
   char_adr_idx = C->get_alias_index(TypeAryPtr::CHARS);
 
   // For each locally allocated StringBuffer see if the usages can be
@@ -1174,18 +1164,9 @@
 
 Node* PhaseStringOpts::copy_string(GraphKit& kit, Node* str, Node* char_array, Node* start) {
   Node* string = str;
-  Node* offset = kit.make_load(kit.control(),
-                               kit.basic_plus_adr(string, string, java_lang_String::offset_offset_in_bytes()),
-                               TypeInt::INT, T_INT, offset_field_idx);
-  Node* count = kit.make_load(kit.control(),
-                              kit.basic_plus_adr(string, string, java_lang_String::count_offset_in_bytes()),
-                              TypeInt::INT, T_INT, count_field_idx);
-  const TypeAryPtr*  value_type = TypeAryPtr::make(TypePtr::NotNull,
-                                                   TypeAry::make(TypeInt::CHAR,TypeInt::POS),
-                                                   ciTypeArrayKlass::make(T_CHAR), true, 0);
-  Node* value = kit.make_load(kit.control(),
-                              kit.basic_plus_adr(string, string, java_lang_String::value_offset_in_bytes()),
-                              value_type, T_OBJECT, value_field_idx);
+  Node* offset = kit.load_String_offset(kit.control(), string);
+  Node* count  = kit.load_String_length(kit.control(), string);
+  Node* value  = kit.load_String_value (kit.control(), string);
 
   // copy the contents
   if (offset->is_Con() && count->is_Con() && value->is_Con() && count->get_int() < unroll_string_copy_length) {
@@ -1342,10 +1323,9 @@
           arg = phi;
           sc->set_argument(argi, arg);
         }
-        //         Node* offset = kit.make_load(NULL, kit.basic_plus_adr(arg, arg, offset_offset),
-        //                                      TypeInt::INT, T_INT, offset_field_idx);
-        Node* count = kit.make_load(kit.control(), kit.basic_plus_adr(arg, arg, java_lang_String::count_offset_in_bytes()),
-                                    TypeInt::INT, T_INT, count_field_idx);
+
+        Node* count = kit.load_String_length(kit.control(), arg);
+
         length = __ AddI(length, count);
         string_sizes->init_req(argi, NULL);
         break;
@@ -1436,12 +1416,11 @@
   }
 
   // Intialize the string
-  kit.store_to_memory(kit.control(), kit.basic_plus_adr(result, java_lang_String::offset_offset_in_bytes()),
-                      __ intcon(0), T_INT, offset_field_idx);
-  kit.store_to_memory(kit.control(), kit.basic_plus_adr(result, java_lang_String::count_offset_in_bytes()),
-                      length, T_INT, count_field_idx);
-  kit.store_to_memory(kit.control(), kit.basic_plus_adr(result, java_lang_String::value_offset_in_bytes()),
-                      char_array, T_OBJECT, value_field_idx);
+  if (java_lang_String::has_offset_field()) {
+    kit.store_String_offset(kit.control(), result, __ intcon(0));
+    kit.store_String_length(kit.control(), result, length);
+  }
+  kit.store_String_value(kit.control(), result, char_array);
 
   // hook up the outgoing control and result
   kit.replace_call(sc->end(), result);