RFR: 8289613: Drop use of Thread.stop in jshell [v4]

[Alan Bateman]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 09:14:47 GMT, Adam Sotona <asotona at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> LocalExecutionControl in jdk.jshell actually uses Thread::stop to cancel execution of (long-running or infinite loops) user code in JShell, however Thread::stop is deprecated and planned for removal.
>> 
>> Proposed patch instruments all user code to call LocalExecutionControl::stopCheck method before every branch instruction.
>> Thread::stop call is replaced by setting global field LocalExecutionControl.allStop to true and stopCheck method then throws ThreadDead when called from the instrumented code.
>> 
>> Proposed patch requires jdk.jshell access to java.base jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm package. 
>> 
>> Please review.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Adam
>
> Adam Sotona has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Minor formating fixes

Would it be possible to summarize how the loader delegate work in jshell? Instrumenting the code to invoke REPL/$Cancel$.stopCheck looks reasonable but I can't immediately see how the generated REPL/$Cancel$ has access to LocalExecutionControl.allStop.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10166