RFR 8173715: Remove Flat Profiler

[David Holmes]

On 24/08/2017 2:20 AM, Gerard Ziemski wrote:
> Thank you David.
> 
> Do I need a second reviewer here?

Yes any launcher changes should be signed off by launcher folk - so I've 
directly cc'd Kumar, who is hopefully around :)

David

> 
> cheers
>   
>> On Aug 22, 2017, at 9:15 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gerard,
>>
>> On 23/08/2017 3:41 AM, Gerard Ziemski wrote:
>>> hi all,
>>> The FlatProfiler (i.e. -Xprof) has been deprecated in jdk9, and now it’s the time to remove the code and obsolete the -Xprof flag.
>>> issue:  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173715
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gziemski/8173715_rev2_jdk/
>>
>> These changes seem okay to me - though I believe the man page files are slated for removal anyway.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David