[7ux-osx] Please review: 7124089: launcher refactoring (original) (raw)

Joseph Darcy joe.darcy at oracle.com
Tue Jan 17 16:03:20 PST 2012

Hello,

On 1/17/2012 8:35 AM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:

Hi Anthony,

src/share/bin/java.c 987 } else if (IsMacOSX() && JLIStrCmp(arg, "-XstartOnFirstThread") == 0) { 988 ProcessSpecialArg(arg); 989 } else if (IsMacOSX() && JLIStrCCmp(arg, "-Xdock:") == 0) { 990 ProcessSpecialArg(arg); If we don't have those runtime checks then Windows, Linux and Solaris will accept those flags without a fuss, so what should the behavior be ? Was a specification (ccc) filed for these flags ? Will this be documented in the help section ? though X flags are unsupported, in the past we have documented them, both in the man pages as well as "java -X", if these will be left undocumented should we take the vm approach and mark it -XX ?

Yes, we should have ccc requests to cover any new flags and any platform-specific flags.

If a flag is generally sensible, I'd prefer to see the flag supported across platforms.

Cheers,

-Joe

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