PING: Make -Xprintflags always available

[Gary Benson]

Hi all,

I mailed this webrev to the list a month ago, and not one person
has commented.  Can somebody please look at this for me?

Cheers,
Gary

Gary Benson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Did anyone have any thoughts on this?  It would be really helpful
> for IcedTea if OpenJDK did this generally.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gary
> 
> Gary Benson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've been working on a script to test HotSpot with non-standard
> > options.  The idea is to start the VM with -XX option and check
> > it doesn't crash or anything.
> > 
> > One thing that's proving problematic is getting a list of all
> > the options.  We want to test product builds, but -Xprintflags
> > is only available on debug builds.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to have -Xprintflags always available?
> > Something like this:
> > 
> >   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbenson/printflags-product/
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Gary
> > 
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> > http://gbenson.net/