Integrated: 8264565: Templatize num_arguments() functions of DCmd subclasses

[Ioi Lam]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 17:46:22 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

> We have many version of `num_arguments()` for the `DCmd` subclasses. They all have identical structure. We should templatize them to reduce duplicated code and avoid cut-and-paste errors.
> 
> It's still possible to write a customized `num_arguments()` function (although none of the existing cases needs to do that). The rules are described here:
> 
> class DCmd : public ResourceObj {
>   ...
>   // num_arguments() is used by the DCmdFactoryImpl::get_num_arguments() template functions.
>   // - For subclasses of DCmdWithParser, it's calculated by DCmdParser::num_arguments().
>   // - Other subclasses of DCmd have zero arguments by default. You can change this
>   //   by defining your own version of MyDCmd::num_arguments().
>   static int num_arguments()        { return 0; }

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: ff223530
Author:    Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/ff223530
Stats:     277 lines in 8 files changed: 27 ins; 241 del; 9 mod

8264565: Templatize num_arguments() functions of DCmd subclasses

Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3312