8225429: Regression in disassembly quality

[Andrew Haley]

On 07.06.19, 17:50, "Kodewerk" <kirk at kodewerk.com> wrote:

>     I was just recently dealing with a JVM crash caused by C2
> compilation missing a barrier. It only showed up on certain
> production system which could never be replicated in a test
> environment. Having a full print assembly in that situation wasn’t a
> great option. Although there is an obscure way to get the assembly
> for a single method it would be great if there was better ways to
> easily target specific compilation events.

What do you mean? It's not difficult or obscure to add

print java.lang::Object

to .hotspot_compiler. I don't know how we could make it simpler;
perhaps we could document it better.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com>
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