Embedded JDK how to replace the default allocator

[Andrew Haley]

On 11/12/2020 20:49, Guy Korland wrote:
> I'm sorry if that is not the right mailing list for such questions, please
> point me to the right one if it's not.
> 
> We're embedding the OpenJDK in a C application, we already managed to make
> it work and run Java bytecode, but we are still missing one last piece, we
> need a way to replace the default memory allocator to use our allocator.
> 
> Is there a way to do it?

Sure. Look in src/hotspot/share/gc/epsilon for an example of the simplest-
possible garbage collector and its interface.

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