RFR: 8338017: Add AOT command-line flag aliases [v7]

[Ioi Lam]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:33:55 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is the 1st PR for [JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading & Linking](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8315737).
>> 
>> Add the following command-line options as specified in JEP 483:
>> 
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>> - `-XX:AOTMode=off/record/create/auto/on`
>> - `-XX:AOTConfiguration=<file>.aotconfig`
>> - `-XX:AOTCache=<file>.aot`
>> 
>> These options are implemented as aliases to existing command-line flags such as `-Xshare:dump`, `-XX:SharedArchiveFile`, `-XX:DumpLoadedClassesList`, etc.
>> 
>> Please see the CSR (TODO) for detailed specification.
>> 
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>> See [here](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8315737) for the sequence of dependent RFEs for implementing JEP 483.
>
> Ioi Lam has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 11 additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'master' into jep-483-step-01-8338017-add-aot-command-line-aliases
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into jep-483-step-01-8338017-add-aot-command-line-aliases
>  - Merge branch 'master' into jep-483-step-01-8338017-add-aot-command-line-aliases
>  - @macarte comments
>  - Merge branch 'master' into jep-483-step-01-8338017-add-aot-command-line-aliases
>  - @dholmes-ora comments: do not check for -XX:AOTMode=create in JLI java.c
>  - Fixed copyright dates
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into jep-483-step-01-8338017-add-aot-command-line-aliases
>  - Merge branch 'master' into jep-483-step-01-8338017-add-aot-command-line-aliases
>  - Fixed whitespaces
>  - ... and 1 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/886cf507...d02959b8

Closing this PR as its changes have been combined into https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/21642.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20516#issuecomment-2429737737