PING: Make -Xprintflags always available

[Christian Thalinger]

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 10:45 +0000, Gary Benson wrote:
> 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/

I think this would be nice to have, but maybe there is a history behind
that that I don't know.  Someone else has to jump in here.

-- Christian