RFR: 8227229: Deprecate the launcher -Xdebug/-debug flags that have not done anything since Java 6 [v3]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:01:33 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   include -debug (alias) option in the deprecated log message
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> src/java.base/share/classes/sun/launcher/resources/launcher.properties line 137:
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>> 135: \    -Xcheck:jni       perform additional checks for JNI functions\n\
>> 136: \    -Xcomp            forces compilation of methods on first invocation\n\
>> 137: \    -Xdebug           deprecated and may be removed in a future release.\n\
> 
> This drops "does nothing" so no longer clear that the option doesn't do anything. It could be changed to "does nothing; deprecated for removal in a future release". Alternatively maybe it would be better to just remove it from the -X output.

Hello Alan, I updated the PR to use your suggested wording. I thought it's of no harm to let it be present in the -X output until we actually remove it (soon).

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14918#discussion_r1266705837