RFR [XS]: 8236274: remove obsolete -d2Zi+ debug flag in MSVC builds
Erik Joelsson
erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Fri Dec 20 08:50:41 UTC 2019
Hello Matthias,
Looks good except for the comment. There is no need to add a comment for
something that has been removed, it will just look confusing.
Documenting it in the JBS issue is enough.
Thanks for cleaning this up!
/Erik
On 2019-12-20 09:37, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
> Hello, please review this small MSVC related change .
>
> The MSVC based builds still have the old flag -d2Zi+ set; this is an undocumented flag , the name of the flag for enhanced optimized debugging is since VS2013 -Zo .
> However the flag (-Zo) is enabled by default for a long time , so the old undocumented version of it ("-d2Zi+") should be removed completely.
>
>
> See the VS2017 documentation :
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/zo-enhance-optimized-debugging?view=vs-2017
>
> "The /Zo option is enabled by default in Visual Studio when you specify debugging information with /Zi or /Z7. Specify /Zo- to explicitly disable this compiler option.
> The /Zo switch is available starting in Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, and it replaces the previously undocumented /d2Zi+ switch."
>
>
> Bug/webrev :
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8236274
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8236274.0/
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>
> Thanks, Matthias
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