> On Jun 10, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 10/06/2016 17:38, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote: > >> >> I just re-read this... >> >> A space in the VM option? As in '-addmods<space><mod_name>'? That's a >> completely new idea for VM options processing and one that we took >> great pains to avoid when '-agentlib' and '-agentpath' were added >> back in the JDK1.5 timeframe. >> >> Alan, surely you remember this from the early JSR-163 and JVM/TI days... > The main effort here is to move these options down to the VM and avoid a > repeat of the past where non-`java` launchers used different options or > properties compared to the launcher. Whether the code that directly acts on > the options is in libjvm or in java code is just implementation detail (and > could change over time). > > The white spec issue is messy but that needs to be part of a separate effort > to sort out the new option names and syntax. Jon has been looking into this.
See https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8152218 Mandy
