Why doesn't hotspot use plain C getenv ? On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Jeremy Manson <jeremyman...@google.com> wrote:
> Hey folks, > > We had a request internally to make it so that JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS could > accept something longer than 1024 characters. See: > > Arguments::parse_options_environment_variable(const char* name, > SysClassPath* scp_p, bool* scp_assembly_required_p) > > in > > > http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/file/27f0413cbea3/src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp > > Would you folks be amenable to a refactoring so that getenv returns a > newly allocated array with the contents of the envvar, which the caller has > to delete? > > Jeremy >
