Hi Erik, the Java developers out there will love you for this change! And yet another feature where you catch up with the SAP JVM :)
The change looks good, thumbs up from me. Regards, Volker On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote: > It was pointed out that the changes to Images.gmk could be made simpler. > Here is a new webrev: > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8170280/webrev.top.02 > > /Erik > > > > On 2016-11-23 15:25, Erik Joelsson wrote: >> >> For a long time, a lot of people have been wanting the JDK classes to be >> compiled with debug symbols enabled by default. I believe the reason we >> haven't so far is to keep footprint down for the JRE image. The usecase for >> debug information is mainly in the JDK image, which is used for development. >> The problem so far has then been that we don't want to compile everything >> twice, once with and once without debug symbols. >> >> With jlink, we now have the option of stripping debug information at link >> time. This adds a bit of time creating the images, but it's small compared >> to recompiling all classes. Because of this, I propose that we enable debug >> symbols for all java compilation in the build by default and add stripping >> to all images that are footprint sensitive. >> >> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8170280 >> >> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8170280/webrev.top.01 >> >> /Erik >> >
