RFR (S) 8173715: Remove FlatProfiler

[coleen.phillimore at oracle.com]

Besides the launcher.properties files of other languages, there was a 
bsd file in the jdk that had -Xprof:

bsd/doc/man/java.1:\-Xprof

Does that have to be updated.  Otherwise I think it looks good.

thanks,
Coleen


On 8/16/17 1:48 PM, Gerard Ziemski wrote:
> hi all,
>
> (this is jdk part of the change, the hotspot part is being reviewed on hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net)
>
> The FlatProfiler (i.e. -Xprof) has been deprecated for a while, and now it’s the time to remove it.
>
> Note about java's man page international translations: I was told by the localization team, that only changes to the English man pages are needed, and that they will trigger an update to other translations.
>
> issue:  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173715
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gziemski/8173715_rev1_jdk
>
> passes the following tests:
>
>   JPRT
>   RBT test_hotspot/test/serviceability/jvmti
>   RBT test_hotspot/test/gc
>   RBT test_hotspot/test/compiler
>   RBT test_hotspot/test/runtime
>
> Thank you.
>