Hello Reviewers,
As part of the OpenJDK review processes, and the next Java SE 8u20
release, the OpenJDK 8 nroff files for Java tools are up for final
review and sign-off, which is available here as a zip file:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rgallard/openjdk_8u20_june_2014.zip
Please provide your sign-off by tomorrow, Wednesday, June 4th.
The following have been fixed in this zip file:
java:
-XX:+UseCompressedOops is on by default in jdk8 when Java heap sizes
less than 32 GB.
UseLargePages: Duplicated entries have been removed (due to incorrect
display of conditional text)
javapackager:
Incorrect examples (due to incorrect display of conditional text)
Other nroff formatting issues.
FYI, the following lists significant changes made to the Java tool nroff
pages for this release as well as the engineer who reviewed the content.
javac
JDK-8042840 (opened by Omair Majid): Duplicated code in javac man page
JDK-8038427 (Erik Costlow): JDK 8's javac does not list -source 8 ...
also made changes to the -target option
javafxpackager
JDK-8042342 Renamed to javapackager (Danno Ferrin)
JDK-8033610, Update info on packager for 8u20 (and other deployment
information)
javapackager
New page (as a result of javafxpackager being renamed)
java
JDK-8033606: Experimental options related to Restricted Transactional
Memory, (Vladimir Kozlov)
JDK-8033604: String deduplication, (Per Lidén)
Additional information for UseAES hardware supportability.
JDK-8033103 (David Holmes), JDK-8042149 (Vladimir Kozlov): Various
fixes. emoved the option UseBoundThreads, Better categorized options, in
particular, HotSpot Server VM, Advanced JIT Compiler Options, and
Advanced Runtime Options.
JDK-8039398 (opened by Staffan Friberg; verified by Filipp Zhinkin)
Spelling errors in GC print flags
JDK-8032663 Retire some rarely-used GC combinations: Moved all
CMSIncremental options to the Deprecated section
Changes to Java Man pages for AES flags.
Additional information for AESIntrinsics
Additional information for bug JDK-8034904
javap
Added a link to jdeps (Mandy Chung)
jmc
JDK-8037401: Minor changes
Thank you,
The Java SE 8 Documentation Team
