Review Request: JDK-8162401 Support multiple --add-exports and --add-reads with the same module/package

[Sundararajan Athijegannathan]

+1

-Sundar


On 10/7/2016 3:47 AM, Mandy Chung wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8162401/webrev.00/
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> Currently, `--add-exports` and `--add-reads` options do not accept duplicated module/package and it is an error to attempt to export the same package more than once on the command-line.  There are cases where allow augmenting the command-line options to add `--add-exports` or `--add-reads`.  jtreg is one example that currently parses the command-line options and has to merge properly if there exists a `--add-exports` option of a given module/package.
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> This patch relaxes this restriction and allow multiple `--add-exports` and `--add-reads` options with the same module/package.  In addition, these 2 options allow unknown module/package and emit a warning rather than as a fatal error, to be consistent with javac.
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