Request for review: 8010506 Typos and errors in gc-related flags in globals.hpp

[Tao Mao]

new webrev: "Frame" seems to be the best way to review it.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tamao/8010506/webrev.02/

Suggestion are taken mostly from Thomas.

Thanks.
Tao

On 5/14/13 2:46 PM, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>
> On 4/30/13 4:58 PM, Tao Mao wrote:
>> new webrev
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tamao/8010506/webrev.01/
>>
>> It needs reviews.
>
> Tao,
>
> Changes you made look good.   I did not see a list of the
> suggested changes in the CR
>
> https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8010506
>
> so don't have any comment about what you decided not
> to change.
>
>>
>> Changeset:
>> Thank you for the thorough report of all these typos/errros, Thomas.
>>
>> I changed most places according to your suggestions (for the rest 
>> few, I did not change because it may slightly change the meaning of 
>> the definition). Also, I went through the file to change some similar 
>> common errors that occurred.
>>
>> Several issues:
>>
>> (1) parallel gc should be lower case or upper case?
>> As I know and, perhaps, someone told me, the term "parallel gc" 
>> sometimes refers to a more generic terminology rather than ParallelGC 
>> or ParallelOldGC, if it doesn't imply these two. Basically, any GC 
>> algorithms that can be parallelized could fall into this category. 
>> Right now, we probably refer "parallel gc" to ParallelGC or 
>> ParallelOldGC. But, we reserve the right to change it to something 
>> else. That's why "fuzziness" exists here. I guess the same way to 
>> deal with "concurrent gc". So, I didn't make these words upper cased.
>>
>> (2) Identification:
>> The general rule is to follow the example (product()'s 
>> identification). The whole file checked and space adjusted accordingly.
>>
>> (3) Line breaks
>> A space should be provided at the line breaks if multiple lines is 
>> needed. Some lines that are slightly longer than normal length is 
>> kept untouched as long as they read well.
>>
>> *(4) Why does the VM option hashCode have lower case initial?
>> The direct answer is "I don't know". (But it is understandable that 
>> hashCode is "legacy" such that it has it own style) Anyone knows the 
>> answer?
>
> I don't know for sure either but might be because of the Java code
>
> public int*hashCode*()
>
>
> Jon
>
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Tao
>>
>> On 3/21/13 3:09 PM, Tao Mao wrote:
>>> 8010506 Typos and errors in gc-related flags in globals.hpp
>>> https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8010506
>>>
>>> webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tamao/8010506/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> Changeset:
>>> NewRatio should defined as
>>> product(uintx, NewRatio, 
>>> 2,                                               \
>>>     "Ratio of old/new generation sizes")                              \
>>> instead of
>>> product(uintx, NewRatio, 
>>> 2,                                               \
>>>     "Ratio of new/old generation sizes")                              \
>>>
>>> PLUS other typos found by Jesper.
>
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