> On Jun 10, 2016, at 7:18 AM, Coleen Phillimore <coleen.phillim...@oracle.com> > wrote: > >> Just to put more context on this patch. We are cleaning up the command line >> option handling and trying to get things more consistent. It will take a >> number of steps. One of the patches to proceed this one is an entry point >> that javac can use to pick up the runtime options. There is also a recent >> javac change to pick up options from an environment variable in a similar >> (but not identical) way to _JAVA_OPTIONS. Once all the pieces are in then I >> think the command line option story will be much better. > > I think this makes it less consistent and is there an open review and > discussion about an entry point for javac to pick up the runtime options? > What would javac do with the -XX options?
It’s an open issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156998 The JBS issue about the CLI option consistency and related to GNU-style https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8152218 There are multiple ways to take argfiles that should also be examined: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8158076 Mandy
