--dry-run description enhancement

[Daniel Fuchs]

Hi Paul,

On 7/12/16 8:00 AM, Paul Benedict wrote:
> Mandy, perhaps there is a JVM technicality here I'm unfamiliar with. My
> understanding of loading a class has always been that it's coupled with
> running its static initializers. So my inference was that the class does
> not get loaded into memory because the latter no longer occurs with
> --dry-run.

--dry-run will load the main class without initializing it (= without
           running the static initializers) - otherwise it wouldn't quite
           be a dry run. see:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/604fc0a43f5b#l1.22

(the 'false' parameter given to Class.forName())

best regards,

-- daniel

>
> On Jul 11, 2016 9:41 PM, "Mandy Chung" <mandy.chung at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>> On Jul 12, 2016, at 10:35 AM, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mandy, can you please give a look to the first email in this thread and
>> see if you believe the enhanced message I suggested is helpful? I think it
>> would be.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Your Suggestion:
>> "create VM but do not load mainclass or execute main method”
>>
>> The main class is loaded and your suggested text does not apply.  What
>> enhanced message do you refer to?
>>
>> Mandy
>>
>>