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More examples for -AresourceLeakIgnoredExceptions #7774

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10 changes: 6 additions & 4 deletions docs/manual/resource-leak-checker.tex
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\<-AresourceLeakIgnoredExceptions=...>. The option takes a comma-separated list of
fully-qualified exception types. A type can be prefixed with \<=> to ignore exactly
that type and not its subclasses. For example, for a very pedantic set of ignored
exceptions use:
exceptions use either of these, which have identical effect:

\begin{verbatim}
-AresourceLeakIgnoredExceptions=java.lang.Error, =java.lang.NullPointerException
-AresourceLeakIgnoredExceptions="java.lang.Error,=java.lang.NullPointerException"
-AresourceLeakIgnoredExceptions="=java.lang.NullPointerException,java.lang.Error"
\end{verbatim}

which ignores \<java.lang.Error> (and all its subclasses) as well as
\<java.lang.NullPointerException> (but not its subclasses).

The keyword \<default> will expand to the default set of ignored exceptions. So,
to add an additional exception to the set of ignored exceptions, use:
to add an additional exception to the set of ignored exceptions, use one of these:

\begin{verbatim}
-AresourceLeakIgnoredExceptions=default,package.MyCustomException
-AresourceLeakIgnoredExceptions="default,package.MyCustomException"
-AresourceLeakIgnoredExceptions="default,=package.MyCustomException"
\end{verbatim}

\sectionAndLabel{Errors about field initialization}{resource-leak-field-initialization}
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