-XshowSettings would probably be a good place to include the VM arguments. $ java -XshowSettings:vm -—dry-run
I file a JBS issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8160389 Mandy > On Jun 27, 2016, at 9:20 AM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote: > > 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 > > >
