RFR: 8003471 - Add Add instrumentation facilities for Throwables

[Mandy Chung]

On 11/15/2012 4:28 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 15/11/2012 12:19, Nils Loodin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.

+1.

You can check out hprof that uses dynamic bytecode instrumentation.

Mandy