Request for review 7188234: Deprecate VM command line options

[harold seigel]

Summary: Please review this modified webrev.  The code was changed to 
add UseVectoredExceptions to the obsolete flags table, as suggested by John.

Open webrev at: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/bug_7188234_2/ 
<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ecoleenp/bug_7188234_2/>

Bug link athttp://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7188234

Thanks, Harold


On 10/18/2012 7:23 PM, John Coomes wrote:
> 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
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