hg: hsx/hotspot-rt/hotspot: 7116481: Commercial features in Hotspot must be gated by a switch

[Charles K Pepperdine]

Hi all,

Some how i missed how this flag came to be. Is there a discussion thread that I read to understand the thinking behind this type of flag in OpenJDK?

Kind regards,
Kirk Pepperdine

On Nov 30, 2011, at 2:19 AM, paul.hohensee at oracle.com wrote:

> Changeset: 763f01599ff4
> Author:    phh
> Date:      2011-11-29 17:00 -0500
> URL:       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hotspot-rt/hotspot/rev/763f01599ff4
> 
> 7116481: Commercial features in Hotspot must be gated by a switch
> Summary: Add -XX:+UnlockCommercialVMOptions to gate use of commercial feature switches in the same way as -XX:UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions gates use of diagnostic feature switches.
> Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, kamg
> 
> ! src/share/vm/runtime/globals.cpp
> ! src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp
> ! src/share/vm/runtime/globals_extension.hpp
>