RFR: 8003471 - Add Add instrumentation facilities for Throwables

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/11/2012 12:19, Nils Loodin wrote:
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>>> Webrev: 
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~nloodin/exception-tracing/webrev.01/
>>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8003322
>> Nils - you can explain why the byte code instrumentation can't be used
>> here?
>
> No real reason it couldn't, I just hadn't implemented it that way for 
> simplicity's sake.
I think it would be great if you could explore that. I think it would be 
a lot preferable than using invasive instrumentation as proposed. Also 
it would eliminate any concerns about stack overflow and whether this is 
a supported interface or not.

-Alan