allan.jacobs@Eng 1997-12-18

This content is gleaned from the SPG version of JDK 1.2
(exact-vm). Some of it is may not be relevent to JavaSoft JDK 1.2.
Given the profusion of JDK's, it would not be a bad idea if one
man page documented all of Sun's JDK's.



The option -maxjitcodesize<number> is in the 'java -help' listing
but is not in the man page.

The option -prof:file is documented as -proffile.

The option -verifyheap is not documented in the man page. If it is
really a debug tool for JTG developers it should it be removed from
the 'java -help' list.

The option -noasyncgc is in the man page. It should
be taken out. At a minimum a sentence should be added saying
that it is not applicable to exact-vm.

The man page for java documents the defaults for the heap
incorrectly. I don't think that the correct values have
been documented for any JDK in the last two years. I think
our goal should be to make the default maximum heap size
larger than the default initial heap size.


                       Man page True
    Argument Information Value (SPG)
-ms: Startup heap 16m 8m
-mx: Maximum heap 1m 24m
-oss: Maximum Java stack 400k 400k
-ss: Maximum native stack 128k 128k


With respect to javac, the option -O:interclass is documented
if 'javac' is entered on the command line. The man page is mute
on this option.