RFR 8173715: Remove Flat Profiler

[Gerard Ziemski]

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> On Aug 24, 2017, at 2:59 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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>>> 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