Request for review 7188234: Deprecate VM command line options

[John Coomes]

harold seigel (harold.seigel at oracle.com) 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/
> 
> Bug link at http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7188234

Looks good to me.

-John

> 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
>