Request for review (S): 7167069: 6 VM flags crash the VM when queried via jinfo

[David Holmes]

Hi Bengt,

Looks good to me.

David

On 10/05/2012 7:07 PM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Can I have some reviews of this simple fix:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/7167069/webrev.00/
>
> Sending this to both Runtime and GC. The change is in runtime code, but
> all the concerned flags are GC flags and I plan to push this through the
> GC repository unless there are any objections to that.
>
> When command line flags with the double type were introduced the methods
> Flag::print_on() and Flag::print_as_flag() were not updated
> correspondingly. The Flag::print_on() method was updated as part of this
> change:
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hotspot-main/hotspot/rev/6ee479178066
>
> But the Flag::print_as_flag() still didn't handle doubles.
>
> I created a JTReg test that should test one flag of each supported type.
>
> Thanks,
> Bengt