RFR (S): 8004018: Remove old initialization flags

[Erik Helin]

Thanks!

Erik

On 01/11/2013 10:02 AM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> Looks good.
>
> StefanK
>
> On 01/11/2013 07:46 AM, Erik Helin wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> this change removes the three developer flags:
>> - InitializeJavaLangSystem
>> - InitializeJavaLangString
>> - InitializeJavaLangExceptionsErrors
>>
>> The flags InitializeJavaLangSystem and InitalizeJavaLangString crashes
>> the VM when they are set to false (see Testing).
>>
>> The flag (InitializeJavaLangExceptionsErrors) does not crash the VM
>> when just running "-version". The RFE suggests that it should be
>> removed, so I went ahead and removed it. Should we keep it?
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ehelin/8004018/webrev.00/
>>
>> RFE:
>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8004018
>>
>> Testing:
>> Running a fastdebug build results in the following:
>>
>> java -XX:-InitializeJavaLangSystem -version
>> # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment
>> #   Internal Error (linkResolver.cpp:902)
>> #   assert(resolved_method->method_holder()->is_linked()) failed: must
>> be linked
>>
>> java -XX:-InitializeJavaLangString -version
>> # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment
>> #   Internal Error (linkResolver.cpp:902)
>> #   assert(resolved_method->method_holder()->is_linked()) failed: must
>> be linked
>>
>> JPRT
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Erik
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