Request for review 7188234: Deprecate VM command line options

[Coleen Phillimore]

This was a temporary flag used during development of ia64 for windows.   
No production code is using it.
Coleen

On 10/17/2012 8:20 PM, John Coomes wrote:
> harold seigel (harold.seigel at oracle.com) wrote:
>> Summary:  The UseVectoredExceptions flag is being removed for JDK8.
>> This flag was used for the IA64 Windows platform but that platform is no
>> longer supported.
>>
>> Open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/bug_7188234
>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ecoleenp/bug_7188234>
>>
>> Bug link at http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7188234
>>
>> Tested with JPRT, and on 64-bit Windows 7 by running specjvm98 and other
>> programs.
> Normally we accept the option, but issue a warning and ignore the
> value for at least one release.  See obsolete_jvm_flags in
> arguments.cpp.  I think this option should be added there.
>
> -John