Integrated: 8256718: Obsolete the long term deprecated and aliased Trace flags

[Harold Seigel]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:13:05 GMT, Harold Seigel <hseigel at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this change to obsolete the deprecated and aliased Trace flags.  The now empty aliased_logging_flags support was left in arguments.cpp for use by trace flags that get deprecated and aliased in the future.
> 
> With this change, users will get the following example messages when using these obsolete flags, depending on whether -XX:+... or -XX:-... was specified:
> 
> VM warning: Ignoring option TraceClassPaths; support was removed in 16.0.  Please use -Xlog:class+path=info instead.
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> VM warning: Ignoring option TraceClassPaths; support was removed in 16.0.  Please use -Xlog:class+path=off instead.
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> The change was tested with tiers1and 2 on Linux, Windows, and MacOS, and tiers 3-5 on Linux x64 and with JCK lang and vm tests.
> 
> Thanks, Harold

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: e4497c9e
Author:    Harold Seigel <hseigel at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/e4497c9e
Stats:     326 lines in 23 files changed: 16 ins; 289 del; 21 mod

8256718: Obsolete the long term deprecated and aliased Trace flags

Reviewed-by: sspitsyn, iklam, dholmes, coleenp

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1525