default values for options

[Travis Downs]

Awesome, thanks for the quick turnaround!

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Aleksey Shipilev <
aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 07/25/2016 02:54 AM, Travis Downs wrote:
> > Running with the -h option gives a reasonable description of the various
> > possible command line flags and options, but doesn't seem to mention
> which
> > flag/option is the default if not explicit specified. Is this documented
> > anywhere?
>
> Ah, yes, this was not very easy to do, because "default" command line
> options are known by Runner itself, not by the command line option
> parsing code. This is because we don't want command line options
> defaults to override annotations.
>
> But, from UX standpoint, users don't care about that internal detail,
> and rightfully expect defaults to be spelled in -h.
>
> Fixed:
>  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/CODETOOLS-7901746
>
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>
>