RFR: 8168010: Deprecate obsolete launcher -d32/-d64 options

[Kumar Srinivasan]

>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Please review enclosed fix for:
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8168010
>>>
>>> Based on this discussion,
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2016-September/004934.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> these options are slated for deprecation, only at the documentation
>>> level,
>>> and will continue to operate with no perceivable behavior change, in
>>> JDK9.
>> This looks okay to me although I've no doubt that it will go unnoticed
>> until the options are actually removed.
>
> Right! The whole point of deprecation is to make it very clear 
> something is going away so people stop using it. I thought the 
> consensus from previous discussion was to deprecate in 9 and issue a 
> warning. And yes that still requires changes to the tests, but so be 
> it. Simply documenting deprecation in the help text is not really 
> deprecating it!

Issuing a warning is likely to break existing applications and break
tests, which parses the output. By consensus, for JDK9, documenting
seems to be the best approach.

Kumar


>
> David
>
>> -Alan