JVM_DumpAllStacks in jvm.h

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/03/2018 09:30, Langer, Christoph wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question to the experts:
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> While looking around in the hotspot source code to understand the ways of printing thread dumps and its implementation, I stumbled over JVM_DumpAllStacks from jvm.h. Grepping the OpenJDK repo shows me that this function apparently is not used at all. Would it be a candidate for removal? If so, shall I file a bug and post a patch for its removal?
>
> Alternatively, maybe I can build on this function. I'm looking for a way to trigger thread dumps out of Java code in java.base. Is there any elegant way to do this? Maybe you have some suggestions...?
>
This was used to support the console for applets in the browser. 
Removing it will probably break Oracle builds at least.

-Alan