How to access TemplateInterpreter::_active_table via SA in non-debug build?

[David Griffiths]

Appears that on Linux I can obtain the mangled form of the name:
_ZN19TemplateInterpreter13_active_tableE. Not sure how reliable this is
though?

Cheers,

David

On 26 July 2018 at 16:28, David Griffiths <david.griffiths at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I would like to access _active_table in TemplateInterpreter using SA
> code in a non-debug build. The problem is that that symbol is not exported
> by the Hotspot type database. Are there any tricks I can do to get round
> this? I can get the start addresses of each template codelet via
> AbstractInterpreter::_code and at the moment I'm thinking of doing brute
> search for the main entry point for a number of bytecodes until I find
> something that looks like the _active_table (although if we are at a
> safepoint it may point to the safepoint table? ugh) But is there a better
> way? (Don't mind a little bit hacky as long as it works).
>
> If I was to become a contributor, would adding a patch to include
> TemplateInterpreter::_active_table in the type database likely be
> accepted?
>
> Reason for doing such weird things: I want to be able to set a breakpoint
> in gdb for a particular bytecode in the interpreter and I want to do this
> with the non-debug build using only the symbols exported via
> gHotSpotVMTypes.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>