LinkResolver question

[Nagy Mostafa]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Yi Yang <idealistyy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I added a printf statement into the LinkResolver::resolve_invokestatic(),
> hoping that it would hook a static method call when a invokestatic bytecode
> happens. However, it prints out more statements than I expected, and the
> .class file tested actually doesn't have any static method calls (according
> to javap also). So, my question is, why does resolve_invokestatic()  be
> called even if there is no invokestatic bytecode?
>

This is because not just your code gets executed. Other Java class library
and initialization code gets executed as well.



> Also, do you think adding instrumentation hooks into LinkResolver is a good
> idea to record the method calls information during the runtime? Thank you.
>
> That would be true only if you are running in interpreter-only mode
(-Xint). Compiled code, however, has to be instrumented or you can write a
JVMTI agent for that purpose but from my experience profiling method
calls/returns is extremely slow.


> Best,
> Yi
>

- nagy
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