2016/6/13 5:13:20 -0700, coleen.phillim...@oracle.com: > Hi Mark, Thank you for replying. Yes, I understand below. > > I have to explain that my exposure to this started with the code > review. That is, working backwards from this design. So it led me to > question the design and I hope that this is something temporary until a > a better solution can be found. I agree that it's a non-trivial problem > and urgent for jdk9 adoption. > > Yes, the JVM and JDK are part of a greater whole but the whole is a lot > of software that should have proper encapsulation or the whole thing > becomes very difficult to enhance and maintain. Because these options > were added to the JVM they needed to be added to a 93 clause 'if' > statement in argument processing for special cases. > > I'm discussing this with the developers and hopefully we'll arrive at > some good solution.
Glad to hear it. Thanks for your understanding. - Mark
