Wrong description in globals.hpp

[Pierre Laporte]

Hello Hotspot guys

I have written a small web application to make the description of all JVM
options available (see http://jvm-options.tech.xebia.fr). To do so I parsed
the content of the globals.hpp file where options are defined.

It seems though that the information in globals.hpp is not completely true.
A follower (@OlivierJaquemet) pointed that the
description of MaxJavaStackTraceDepth is slightly wrong :
"*Regarding options MaxJavaStackTraceDepth :
* With Java > 1.6, value 0 really means 0. value -1 or any negative number
must be specified to print all the stack (tested with 1.6.0_22, 1.7.0 on
Windows)
* With Java <= 1.5, value 0 means everything, JVM chokes on negative number
(tested with 1.5.0_22 on Windows)hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net*"

As of jdk7u4, the description of this option in globals.hpp (line 2893) is
still "Max. no. of lines in the stack trace for Java exceptions (0 means
all)". Can you update it with "Max. no. of lines in the stack trace for
Java exceptions (-1 means all, 0 means nothing)" ?

Best regards.

--

Pierre Laporte
pierre at pingtimeout.fr
http://www.pingtimeout.fr/
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