How to add options to the javac build in the JDK 8 repo?

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Fri Sep 6 07:18:36 UTC 2013


On 2013-09-05 19:53, Joe Darcy wrote:
> Once the "foo" category of warnings are resolved, I think it is a bit 
> clearer to add "foo," to the list of enabled lint warnings rather than 
> to remove "-foo,".
>
> However, I'm less concerned with how the various Xlint checks are 
> enabled compared to getting them enabled.

And I think a long list of disabled warnings look like a "hall of 
shame", which explicitely states what we currently suck at. :-) But 
whatever. If you think this is clearer, I won't argue. As you say, the 
important thing is to fix the code and enable the checks.

/Magnus



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