RFR: JDK9: 8029388: java.exe consumes argument intended for launched java class

[Kumar Srinivasan]

Mandy,

Thanks for the review.

> On 12/11/2013 3:21 PM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please review a fix for Windows launcher where it consumes 
>> application args
>> -d32 and -d64, the fix is to stop the scan when it hits the 
>> Application sentinel
>> ie. class-name or jar-name.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ksrini/8029388/webrev.0/
>
> Nit: can we start checking from argv[1] and skip argv[0]?   line 194 
> no need to check i > 0 then.

Yes, we can start from 1 instead of 0.

>
> Nit: line 95 - an extra space before "dmodel".   A general question -  
> doExec handles the case when the cmd 

Will fix that.

> terminates with an exception.  I was wondering if the generated Args 
> class should just throw an exception if it doesn't match the expected 
> value (i.e. have Args class to do the verification).  I pondered a 
> little bit when reading the verifyOption method before I read the 
> createOptionsJar method.

I have tried to keep the generated classes as simple as possible, 
compilation failures
and errors in these are hard to track down.

Kumar

>
> Otherwise, looks good.
>
> Mandy