Mandy, if I may recommend another suggestion, another "sanity" check could be dumping the command line arguments. I know quite a few bash programmers who would really love to see they passed their arguments correctly without executing their program. :-)
Cheers, Paul On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Raymond Gallardo < raymond.galla...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi Mandy, > > Does this enhancement need to be doc'd? If so, could you add a subtask > (component = docs)? > > Thanks, > --Raymond > > On 24/06/2016 9:49 AM, Mandy Chung wrote: > >> Webrev: >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8159596/webrev.00/ >> >> `java --dry-run` will create the VM, load the main, locate the static >> void main method, and exit (with 0) instead of executing the method. As >> all module options are processed and the boot layer is created, this would >> be useful to sanity check the options and detect possible issues. >> >> Mandy >> >> >
