RFR (XXS) 8213760: os::obsolete_option is obsolete and should be removed

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Nov 13 02:08:39 UTC 2018


Thanks for the review Jiangli!

David

On 13/11/2018 11:39 am, Jiangli Zhou wrote:
> Looks good.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jiangli
> 
> 
> On 11/12/18 5:34 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213760
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8213760/webrev/
>>
>> We've been flagging a small set of non-existent -X options as obsolete 
>> for the past 16 years on Solaris only. That's probably enough time for 
>> people to update their scripts.
>>
>> More info in bug report but the flags are:
>>
>> -Xt
>> -Xmt
>> -Xverifyheap
>>
>> and -Xmaxjitcodesize was also listed but not actually being treated as 
>> obsolete.
>>
>> The mechanism for per-OS obsoletion of -X flags is not needed and is 
>> removed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
> 


More information about the hotspot-runtime-dev mailing list