Request for review 7188234: Deprecate VM command line options

[Keith McGuigan]

Looks good.

On 10/19/2012 2:14 PM, harold seigel wrote:
> 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 athttp://cr.openjdk.java.net/~coleenp/bug_7188234
>>>>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ecoleenp/bug_7188234>
>>>>>
>>>>> Bug link athttp://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