FW: RFR(M): 8189102: All tools should support -?, -h and --help (original) (raw)

Lindenmaier, Goetz goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com
Tue Dec 12 10:36:51 UTC 2017

Hi Alan,

Javadoc combines documentation and support of a flag in the way the flag handling is implemented. On the other side, it prints the help message anyways if a wrong flag is presented to it, so if you call it with -help you get the help message. Therefore, in my original change where I tried to get it more cleaned up, I removed -help support and documentation from Javadoc.

I added it again and updated the table in the CSR: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/wr17/8189102-helpMessage/webrev.06/

Best regards, Goetz.

-----Original Message----- From: Alan Bateman [mailto:Alan.Bateman at oracle.com] Sent: Montag, 11. Dezember 2017 17:53 To: Lindenmaier, Goetz <goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com>; core-libs- dev at openjdk.java.net; 'compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net' <compiler-_ _dev at openjdk.java.net>; serviceability-dev (serviceability- dev at openjdk.java.net) <serviceability-dev at openjdk.java.net> Subject: Re: FW: RFR(M): 8189102: All tools should support -?, -h and --help

On 07/12/2017 11:20, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote: > Hi, > > ... missed some lists in my first post ... > > I prepared a fifth webrev for this change. Please review. > > It incorporates the changes requested by the CSR reviewers > (not to remove docuemtation of '-help' where is was documented > before) and the changes proposed by Kumar: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/wr17/8189102- helpMessage/webrev.05/ > > Looks like it still drops -help from the javadoc usage message, I can't tell if you meant to do that. -Alan.

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