Summary

Obsolete the VM product option BaseFootPrintEstimate due to removal of corresponding functionality. It is implemented and provided only by Parallel GC.

Problem

This flag doesn't affect application or gc behavior and is very rarely used.

Solution

Remove the functionality and obsolete the VM product option BaseFootPrintEstimate without any deprecation period.

-  product(size_t, BaseFootPrintEstimate, 256*M,                             \
-          "Estimate of footprint other than Java Heap")                     \
-          range(0, max_uintx)                                               \
-                                                                            \