Request for review: 8014138: Add VM option to facilitate the writing of CDS tests

[harold seigel]

Hi,

Please review this fix for bug 8014138.

This enhancement adds a new diagnostic option, 
"-XX:SharedArchiveFile=<file-path>" that takes a string specifying the 
path of the shared archive file.  Note that if the option is specified 
when the shared archive is written, then it must be used when the shared 
archive is being read (i.e. -Xshare:on).

This change was tested with JCK lang and vm tests, UTE vm.quick.testlist 
and vm.mlvm.testlist tests, and jtreg tests.  In addition, the test 
included in this change was run on Linux 32/64, Solaris 32/64, Windows 
7, and Mac OS.

Open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hseigel/bug_8014138/ 
<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Ehseigel/bug_8014138/>

Bug link at http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8014138

Thanks, Harold