New project: getting rid of IcedTea local patches

[Alan Bateman]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>   
>> 2009/4/9 Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at sun.com>:
>>     
>
>   
>>> icedtea-jvmtiEnv.patch - I thought JvmtiEnv::GetLineNumberTable already
>>> handled this case so I'm curious why this one is needed.
>>>       
>> Added by Andrew Haley as part of work on Shark; perhaps he can explain.
>>     
>
> GetLineNumberTable checks for a missing table but not for a zero-length
> one.  I had a crash in Shark, but I can't remember exactly where.
>
> Andrew.
>   
I need to double-check the VM and JVM TI specs but off-hand, I believe a 
zero-length table is possible. I wonder if this was a case of the agent 
not handling the zero-length case. Anyway, if you do remember the 
details please send them on to serviceability-dev.

-Alan.