RFR: Move command line flags to separate file

coleen.phillimore at oracle.com coleen.phillimore at oracle.com
Wed Feb 14 14:00:47 UTC 2018


I guess zFlags is a nicer name even though all the other subsystems use 
the name *globals for their flags.   It might subvert any manual search 
for finding all the command line flags to do something with (add ranges, 
etc).

Thank you for doing this change.

Coleen

On 2/14/18 4:14 AM, Per Liden wrote:
> This patch moves the ZGC related command line flags into a separate file.
>
> (It's not pretty, but this is the mechanism hotspot offers today. 
> Overhauling this mechanism, so that adding a file with some command 
> line flags doesn't also involve adding a bunch of macro crap to 5 
> other files, is on the runtime team's backlog/wish-list.)
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/zgc/flags_in_separate_file/webrev.0/
>
> /Per



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