RFR (S) round 0 for 8141068 Refactor -XXFlags= code in preparation for removal

[Ron Durbin]

Thanks for all of your review on this issue.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel D. Daugherty
>Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 12:19 PM
>To: Ron Durbin; hotspot-runtime-dev at openjdk.java.net
>Subject: Re: RFR (S) round 0 for 8141068 Refactor -XXFlags= code in preparation for removal
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>On 11/6/15 12:05 PM, Ron Durbin wrote:
>> This bug fix consists of a refactoring/cleanup of the -XX:Flags code.
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rdurbin/8141068_OCR0_JDK9_webrev
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>src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.hpp
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>src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp
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>Thanks for detangling the '-XX:Flags=' options support from the
>rest of the more recent (and modern?) cmd options changes. That
>will make it easier to (hopefully) deprecate (and eventually
>remove) the '-XX:Flags=' option...
>
>If we decide not to remove the '-XX:Flags=' option, then at
>least we don't have to carry its baggage through all the
>new function calls...
>
>Dan
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>>
>> Bug report:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141068
>>
>> This bug fix has been tested on:
>>     OS:
>>       Solaris, MAC, Windows, Linux
>>     Tests:
>>       Manual unit tests
>>       JPRT with -testset hotspot(including the SQE current test coverage for this feature.)
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