On 08/06/2016 23:37, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
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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?
I see Mandy has pointed to -agentlib, -javaagent and others which are
also handled by the VM.
In general then distinction between so-called standard and -X options
has been blurred for many years. At some point we need to take a pass
over the new options and decide whether they should be -X or not. -X is
particularly annoying when you start to translate the option names GNU
style.
:
Someone already asked this but are there tests for all these
combinations of options?
The main tests for these options, and combinations, are in
jdk/tests/launcher/modules.
-Alan
