RFR: 8286694: Incorrect argument processing in java launcher [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Wed, 18 May 2022 07:40:43 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/java.base/share/native/libjli/java.c line 1631:
>> 
>>> 1629:         const char *arg = jargv[i];
>>> 1630:         if (arg[0] == '-' && arg[1] == 'J') {
>>> 1631:             assert(arg[2] != '\0' && "Invalid JAVA_ARGS or EXTRA_JAVA_ARGS defined by build");
>> 
>> Interesting trick.
>
> Since we pass NDEBUG, this assert is disabled in release builds. This is the supposed behavior, right? That we don't do anything on release builds?

Right - that is what I would expect from an assert.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8694