Adding jigsaw-dev where the code review is posted. See [1] for Coleen’s review
comment.
> On Jun 8, 2016, at 4:53 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/06/2016 8:37 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>
>>
>> I have to ask why Hotspot convention was violated with this new option
>> syntax? These options don't start with -X and the values aren't
>> specified as : separators like the rest? Like
>> -Xshare:{dump,auto,on,off}, etc. Why are these different?
> Good question. Presumably these are not non-standard arguments, but common
> arguments that must always be supported, hence not -X. But this somewhat
> muddies the waters as the VM itself has, to my recollection, never had
> standard arguments: VM arguments are -XX arguments, other arguments were
> launcher arguments. So yes this seems to be introducing a new kind of VM
> argument.
>
-agentlib, -agentpath, -javaagent, -verbose:{gc,class,jni} are neither -X nor
-XX options.
> This also begs the questions as to where you get help for these options once
> moved into the JVM? Will the launcher be updated to pretend they are launcher
> arguments and document them?
Good question on the documentation. java -help continues to print these module
options as -verbose:gc option is shown and I don’t see any issue for java help
message and its documentation to list VM options.
I think they should be listed in the HotSpot VM options documentation:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions-jsp-140102.html
Mandy
[1]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2016-June/019882.html
