<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello,</div><div> </div><div>I am trying to do some modifications in the allocation process of 'external' objects i.e. objects allocated using 'new' by any java program.</div><div>As written in the whitepaper, JVM employs the fast allocation or 'Bump a pointer' technique for allocating external objects.</div><div><br></div><div>I am not able to find the entry point of the 'new' keyword i.e. what functions are called when it sees the new keyword in a java program.</div><div>My initial suspect was JRT_ENTRY(...) macro in the runtime.cpp file, where they have matched 'new_instance_java' with 'new_instance_C'.</div><div>I tried to follow the functions called by this macro i.e. instanceKlass::cast(klass)->allocate_instance(THREAD);</div><div>Although it did take me
to some object allocation but I am not sure if this is the process used to allocate java objects.</div><div>It seems this process is used by the JVM to allocate it's internal runtime objects to build the environment.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't know a whole lot about jvm, this is just what I could make out by looking at the code.</div><div><br></div><div>Please help me find the definition new.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Yogesh </div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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