Code review request: 7152671,RFE: Windows decoder should add some std dirs to the symbol search path

[Zhengyu Gu]

Good question.

Dan, do you have any comments?

Thanks,

-Zhengyu


On 1/9/2013 3:02 AM, Christian Törnqvist wrote:
> Hi Zhengyu,
>
> Why do we need to add JDK/lib and JRE/lib to the symbol path? Looking at where the symbols are I would expect the symbol path to include the jvm.dll directory and JRE/bin ?
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhengyu Gu
> Sent: den 8 januari 2013 21:35
> To: hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Code review request: 7152671,RFE: Windows decoder should add some std dirs to the symbol search path
>
> This is an enhancement that allows Windows decoder to search pdb files that are created by FDS.
>
> In short, if FDS pdb files are downloaded into following paths, Widnows decoder should be able to use them to decode stacks:
>
> $JDK/lib
> $JRE/lib
> directory where jvm.dll is loaded from.  ($JRE/bin/{server or client})
>
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/7152671/webrev.01/
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Zhengyu
>