RFR: JDK-8156994 - jimage --help is not helpful

[Jim Laskey (Oracle)]

> On Jun 1, 2016, at 12:33 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 01/06/2016 15:47, Jim Laskey (Oracle) wrote:
> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlaskey/8156994/webrev/index.html
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156994
> Good to see this fixed. I wonder about the usage message for -verify :
>   "Reports on any .class entries that don't verify as classes"
> 
> "verify" isn't clear here, one might thing it runs the verifier when all it does is check that each class resource has the 0xCAFEBABE magic number. Instead of changing the usage message then what would you think about changing the implementation to work like the VerifyJImage test? Separate issue of course but I suspect it might be more useful. We could even think about having it be run in the build.

I have looked at the VerifyJImage test and wonder how it works if jimage being used is not the boot jimage.  Would creating a loader and using defineClass be reasonable?


> 
> -Alan