Unused paramter 'boolean newln' in java.lang.VersionProps#print(boolean err, boolean newln)

[Mandy Chung]

VersionProps::print(boolean err, boolean newln) is called by 
VersionProps::println(boolean) and VersionProps::print(boolean) which is 
called from the launcher java -version and -showversion option [1].

Mandy
[1] 
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/share/native/libjli/java.c#L1804

On 3/19/22 11:20 AM, Andrey Turbanov wrote:
> Hello.
> I found a suspicious method java.lang.VersionProps#print with unused
> parameter 'boolean newln'.
> This class is generated from template -
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/VersionProps.java.template#L203
> It's unused since integration of 'JDK-8169069 Module system
> implementation refresh (11/2016)' -
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/fbe85300bfcc69cb4dd56e4df33ceea632366283
>
>
>
> Andrey Turbanov