Request for review 7188234: Deprecate VM command line options

[John Coomes]

Coleen Phillimore (coleen.phillimore at oracle.com) wrote:
> 
> This was a temporary flag used during development of ia64 for windows.   
> No production code is using it.

That's impossible to know.  And it takes just a single line in the
table to avoid annoying anyone out there that may be using it.

-John

> 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
>