JDK-8294546: document where javac differs when invoked via launcher and ToolProvider

[jonathan-gibbons]

Please review a doc-only change to specify the differences between using different ways to invoke javac.

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• JDK-8294546: document where javac differs when invoked via launcher and ToolProvider
• JDK-8294687: document where javac differs when invoked via launcher and ToolProvider (CSR)

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• Joe Darcy (@jddarcy - Reviewer)

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8294546: document where javac differs when invoked via launcher and ToolProvider

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At the time when this comment was updated there had been 159 new commits pushed to the master branch:

• 7e4868de7b0d3c20a35f06671ec0b68cfd441793: 8294847: Fix calculation of G1 effective scanned cards prediction
• 2f60675e06801b8ee495729d8bff2faec37ce509: 8294997: Improve ECC math operations
• 94caecbe574227b232e22d9f56361f8ecd507be6: 8294906: Memory leak in PKCS11 NSS TLS server
• 03e63a2b87e1bef6025722ec9a016312c55ebd81: 8295225: [JVMCI] codeStart should be cleared when entryPoint is cleared
• 26ac8366360685ef0cf3447ee7db16ba7a7fa1ec: 8291638: Keep-Alive timeout of 0 should close connection immediately
• 6ae7e4d4aad5712cf2fe6ab9f98dc424fa4170cb: 8293984: Unnecessary Vector usage in PropertyEditorSupport
• cd1357b0af0d4e3b459fcf88e67510502464bb90: 8295229: Try to verify gtest version
• 90fb9a085bbaa9d1928a1cec9f00098b80577721: 8295102: Always load @lambda-form-invoker lines from default classlist
• ac1941425bdb1a25aa3364eef9eb1092ee716761: 8294994: Update Jarsigner and Keytool i18n tests to validate i18n compliance
• 1961e81e02e707cd0c8241aa3af6ddabf7668589: 8289509: Improve test coverage for XPath Axes: descendant, descendant-or-self, following, following-sibling
• ... and 149 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/3b1bc21727636cb50cd04d958031832f48fe17e3...master

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/integrate

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Going to push as commit f300ec8631b781938e6e96165ba23cda14a20f24. Since your change was applied there have been 203 commits pushed to the master branch:

• b269c51d10c353d9b7143b2239beb23c01352182: 8295395: Linux Alpha Zero builds fail after JDK-8292591
• ae60599e2ba75d80c3b4279903137b2c549f8066: 8295023: Interpreter(AArch64): Implement -XX:+PrintBytecodeHistogram and -XX:+PrintBytecodePairHistogram options
• 4d37ef2d545c016e6c3ad52171ea961d4406726f: 8295262: Build binutils out of source tree
• 0919a3a0c198a5234b5ed9a3bb999564d2382a56: 8294186: AArch64: VectorMaskToLong failed on SVE2 machine with -XX:UseSVE=1
• ec2981b83bc3ef6977b5f16d5222eb49b0ea49ad: 8293711: Factor out size parsing functions from arguments.cpp
• 5d273b9f040a9884e2ae5b0f1409a3f9075c51c9: 8295278: Add parallel class loading tests
• 172006c0e9433046252bd79e8864890ab7c0ce56: 8295333: G1: Remove unnecessary check in G1Policy::calculate_desired_eden_length_by_mmu
• 7743345f6f73398f280fd18364b4cea10a6b0f2f: 8294314: Minimize disabled warnings in hotspot
• 552d8a2821f03046896a728d6e4cec0ef754d3f4: 8295192: Use original configure command line when called from a script
• cf07eaeb9291da725181832b8bb1dc54957ba886: 8295020: javac emits incorrect code for for-each on an intersection type.
• ... and 193 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/3b1bc21727636cb50cd04d958031832f48fe17e3...master

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