Documentation for -source option in javac man pages is wrong in JDK 7 and 8

[Jim Holmlund]

Raymond, Nico points out that this doc:
    http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javac.html
says that 1.6 is the default for -source.

Did you happen to fix this when you fixed 7085370?

- jjh

On 11/15/2011 5:29 PM, Nico R. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in JDK 7, the man Linux/Solaris page for javac
> (jdk7/jdk/src/linux/doc/man/javac.1 and
> jdk7/jdk/src/solaris/doc/sun/man/man1/javac.1) says that 1.6 is the
> default value for -source. However, compiling a simple test program
> which uses features from version 7 works fine. If I use ‘-source 1.6’ or
> ‘-source 6’, it fails. With ‘-source 7’, it works again.
>
> These facts and the value of ‘DEFAULT’ in
> jdk7/langtools/src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/code/Source.java
> suggest a documentation bug: the text “This is the default value. ”
> should be moved from the description for -source 1.6 to 1.7.
>
> Seems that it was forgotten to update the documentation for -source
> before the JDK 7 release; the documentation for -target looks up to date.
>
> The man page for JDK 8 needs to be updated accordingly (DEFAULT is
> JDK1_8 in this case).
>
> The javac documentation on the web (…/solaris/… and …/windows/…) is also
> affected. Is the javac for Windows documentation generated from the man
> page?