RFR: 8146632: Add descriptive error messages for removed non-product logging flags.

Max Ockner max.ockner at oracle.com
Wed Mar 16 18:05:59 UTC 2016


webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mockner/8146632.02/
  - Labeled #endif with // PRODUCT
  - refactored table lookup code to only do lookup once.
  - Added VerboseVerification to the table.

Comments below.

On 3/16/2016 1:48 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Max,
>
> On 16/03/2016 3:45 AM, Max Ockner wrote:
>> Hello again everyone!
>>
>> Please review this change which adds better error messages for
>> non-product flags that are now converted to Unified Logging.
>>
>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8146632
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mockner/8146632/
>>
>> Since these options have been removed, we want still want the vm to
>> crash here, but now with an error message giving the correct command
>> line option. The new message looks like this:
>>
>>  > TraceClassInitialization has been removed. Please use -Xlog:classinit
>> instead."
>>
>> The entire output looks like this:
>>
>>  > TraceClassInitialization has been removed. Please use -Xlog:classinit
>> instead.
>>  > Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
>>  > Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
>
> I'm concerned that this has introduced another variant of "flag 
> deprecation". It begs the question as to when this new code should be 
> removed. Maybe we need to add "replaced" as another type of flag 
> change so we can report in 9 the flag has been replaced and then in 10 
> just report an "unknown option" error ?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
Seems appropriate to report a specific error message for 9 and then 
remove it for 10. If it would help, we can store a Version in the table 
to keep track of when each entry needs to be deleted,  like what is done 
in the table of obsolete flags.
>> Tested with jtreg runtime tests. A new test checks for an appropriate
>> error message for every develop flag that has so far been converted to
>> logging.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Max
>>
>>



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