Detecting Garbage Collector Generation

[Volkan Hatem]

Apologies in advance if this list is not intended for these kind of
questions.

JDK 1.6:

How can I detect to which generation an object belongs? (regular java,
JVMTI, ?)

Is it safe to assume that all generations are allocated contigiously? Hence
detecting starting offset & size of a generation may give me what I'm
looking for?

Where can I find more information about how GC interacts with JVM? In other
words, how can I implement agents which interacts with GC the way JVMTI
does?

This will require more than detecting start/stop of GC collection. What GC
had detected as reachable/unreachable, decision to promote an object etc.

Thanks,
-volkan
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