Please review -XshowSettings a java launcher option.

[David Holmes]

Hi Kumar,

This appeases my concerns about the VM settings.

Thanks,
David

Kumar Srinivasan said the following on 11/13/10 06:17:
> Thanks for all the reviews!.
> 
> Here are the fixes in this version:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ksrini/6452854/webrev.01
> 
> 1. Fixed the representation of numbers and scaling using BigDecimal.
> 2. Argument processing checks for -XshowSettings and -XshowSetting:opt
>     (added a test to catch the former, added some comments in java.c)
> 3. Replaced String* with PrintStream.print*, it makes the logic easier
>     to read, so I decided to go with this.
> 4. Removed extraneous path.separators.
> 5. line.separator will be printed as ASCII symbols CR and LF
> 6. If the helper cannot determine the value that line will not be 
> displayed.
> 7. In the case of the Max memory not gotten from the launcher 
> (Estimated) is printed.
> 8. Removed the option hints -X* and so on in the labels.
> 9. Renamed Ergonomic Class -> Ergonomic Machine Class.
> 
> Thanks
> Kumar
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 11/11/2010 16:42, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>>>> line 176, 188, 190-191, 195, and other lines in printPrintLocales 
>>>> and printLocale methods:
>>>> - the assignment to the buf and out variable to itself (returned 
>>>> from StringBuffer.append() method) is not necessary.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes fixed, I missed these.
>>
>> The "intention" of returning the StringBuffer itself for those 
>> append() methods is that
>> you can then write the code like
>>
>>
>> private static void printLocale(PrintStream ostream) {
>>    ostream.println(new StringBuilder("\n" + LOCALE_SETTINGS + "\n")
>>                        .append(INDENT)
>>                       .append("default locale: ")
>>                       .append(Locale.getDefault().getDisplayLanguage())
>>                       .append(prettyPrintLocales())
>>                       .toString());
>> }
>>
>>
>> One more nit is that you might want to do something special for
>>
>>   line.separator =
>>
>> to make it "readable"
>>
>> -Sherman
>>
>