RFR: 8167446: Add back PermGenSize and MaxPermGenSize

[Jeremy Manson]

FYI: At Google, to ease the transition, we just made those flags *mean*
MetaspaceSize and MaxMetaspaceSize.  We got no complaints (as far as I
know).

Jeremy

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Coleen Phillimore <
coleen.phillimore at oracle.com> wrote:

>
> I think this looks great.  If we decide to never remove these options at
> some point in the future, we can change the last element in the array to
> undefined.
>
> Thanks for doing this so quickly, Max.
> Coleen
>
>
>
> On 10/11/16 5:29 PM, Max Ockner wrote:
>
>>
>> New webrev: http://oklahoma.us.oracle.com/~mockner/webrev/8167446.02
>>   - Added a test
>>   - Adjusted the obsolete field on both flags.
>>
>> On 10/11/2016 2:31 PM, harold seigel wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Max,
>>>
>>> Can you add a small test?  It would prevent someone else from removing
>>> the options.
>>>
>>> I have added a simple test.
>>
>> Thanks, Harold
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/11/2016 1:44 PM, Max Ockner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> Please Review this small change.
>>>>
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mockner/8167446/
>>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8167446
>>>>
>>>> Added PermSize and MaxPermSize to obsolete flags table. They are
>>>> recognized but ignored.
>>>>
>>>> The bug title says "PermGenSize" and "MaxPermGenSize" but the comment
>>>> says "PermSize" and MaxPermSize". Which one is correct?
>>>>
>>>> Tested both options on java -version. Nothing happens, but I don't get
>>>> an "Unrecognized ..." error.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Max
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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