RFR(S): 8027829: CompileCommand does not accept all JLS-conformant class/method names

Nils Eliasson nils.eliasson at oracle.com
Tue Nov 25 13:12:42 UTC 2014


Hi,

I added an improved help text and included a format description that is 
printed on parse error.

webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neliasso/8027829/webrev.04/

Thanks!
Nils

On 2014-11-24 15:01, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
> Looks good.
>
> Best regards,
> Vladimir Ivanov
>
> On 11/24/14, 5:24 PM, Nils Eliasson wrote:
>> Hi Vladimir,
>>
>> You are absolutely correct. Of course it is the JVMS that should be
>> targeted.
>>
>> I have updated the change adding all characters that do not create
>> problem with the
>> command line parser or pattern matcher, and are allowed by the JVMS.
>>
>> Also fixed so that we can match the signature without requiring a
>> whitespace before.
>>
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neliasso/8027829/webrev.02
>>
>> Thanks,
>> //Nils
>>
>> On 2014-11-21 16:30, Vladimir Ivanov wrote:
>>> Nils,
>>>
>>> 2 typos: Charachter.isJavaIdentiferPart
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to extend this further past JLS?
>>> JVMS allows arbitrary UTF8 string to be used as a class/method/field
>>> name and some JVM languages use that.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Vladimir Ivanov
>>>
>>> On 11/21/14, 8:02 PM, Nils Eliasson wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Please review this patch.
>>>>
>>>> It includes two fixes:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Improve CompileCommand so that it now accepts all JLS conformant
>>>> class and method names. (With one exception - \u0000 can not be used
>>>> since the commandline parsing uses null terminated strings.) For 
>>>> parsing
>>>> simplicity it is possible in some case to specify a pattern that is 
>>>> not
>>>> JLS-conformant. That is however not a problem - the pattern will be
>>>> saved as a symbol and will simply never match any allowed name.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Fixed some output to make it more understandable. The user is
>>>> specifying the flag "CompileCommand" and any output should be 
>>>> annotated
>>>> with the flag name, and not "CompilerOracle". Also added more 
>>>> describing
>>>> error messages.
>>>>
>>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027829
>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neliasso/8027829/webrev.01/
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Nils Eliasson
>>



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