Saturday 25 August 2012

Hidden Options in javac

You probably already know that the default Java compiler (javac) can output a bunch of options if you run it as "javac -h". You can also get the extended list of Oracle specific command switches using "javac -X". Until today, I'd not realised that javac has even more command line switches, called "hidden options". It's possible to call them using a syntax like so "-XD-hidden-option-name".

Now, I wonder if ecj has the same sort of thing. It'd be handy....

Update: it doesn't look like it. *unhappy face*