Bug ID: JDK-4942878 Don't make "java -client" be an error on 64-bit platforms

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5.0 b28Fixed

Currently, all our 64-bit vm's (sparcv9, ia64, amd64) treat the "-client" vm option as an error.  While this is reasonable since only the server compiler exists for those platforms, having "-client" issue a warning issue or be a silent alias for "-server" would aid portability of scripts.

CONVERTED DATA BugTraq+ Release Management Values COMMIT TO FIX: tiger-beta FIXED IN: tiger-beta INTEGRATED IN: tiger-b28 tiger-beta

14-06-2004

SUGGESTED FIX One line changes to the appropriate jvm.cfg files. ###@###.### 2003-10-23 src/share/bin>sccs sccsdiff -r1.111 -r1.110 java.c ------- java.c ------- 112c112,113 < /* Maximum supported entries from jvm.cfg. */ --- > > /* Support for options such as -hotspot, -classic etc. */ 114d114 < /* Values for vmdesc.flag */ 121d120 < #define VM_IGNORE 5 592,593d590 < /* fall through */ < case VM_IGNORE: 1404d1400 < * | ignoreLine 1410d1405 < * ignoreLine := flag "IGNORE" EOL 1424,1425d1418 < * - if the flag appears on an ignoreLine, the identifier is recognized as the < * name of a JVM, but the identifier is ignored and the default vm used 1520,1521d1512 < } else if (!strncmp(tmpPtr, "IGNORE", strlen("IGNORE"))) { < vmType = VM_IGNORE; src/solaris/bin/amd64>sccs sccsdiff -r1.1 -r1.2 jvm.cfg ------- jvm.cfg ------- 17c17 < -client ERROR --- > -client IGNORE src/solaris/bin/ia64>sccs sccsdiff -r1.2 -r1.3 jvm.cfg ------- jvm.cfg ------- 22c22 < -client ERROR --- > -client IGNORE src/solaris/bin/sparcv9>sccs sccsdiff -r1.9 -r1.10 jvm.cfg ------- jvm.cfg ------- 22c22 < -client ERROR --- > -client IGNORE ###@###.### 2003-11-03

03-11-2003

EVALUATION A fine idea. ###@###.### 2003-10-23

23-10-2003

Relates :	JDK-6577429 - java -d64 should work consistently (inconsistent behavior on windows-amd64)
Relates :	JDK-6234127 - AMD64: java -client -version shows Error message with windows-amd64
Relates :	JDK-4764675 - Remove the launcher jvm.cfg file