RFR: 8348203: [JVMCI] Make eager JVMCI initialization observable in the debugger

[David Holmes]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:46:36 GMT, Volker Simonis <simonis at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Yes, because that's the normal case. Usually, JVMCI gets initialized lazily,

Okay that alleviates my concern. I will leave it for JVMCI folk to approve.

> Is this a serious question? Because I'm hunting a bug in eager JVMCI initialization.

Yes a serious question but perhaps poorly framed. I was trying to gauge whether it makes sense to change the way the VM is doing this to address the debugging problem that you ran into i.e was this a general issue to be solved, or a one-of special case that should be handled by a local change instead.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23219#issuecomment-2608933519