RFR: 8346661: Add a register print helper method and unify register printing

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:31:10 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > > I think it is very difficult to handle the formatting alignment/indentation when using a per-register helper this way. But I also don't think it is worth the trouble of trying to write a print function that takes a set of registers and their descriptions and figures out maximum name lengths etc to get that layout correct.
> > > To be honest the bang-for-buck here seems too low to be worthwhile IMO.
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> > I agree. The intention is good, but the savings are not that large IMHO.
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> Hi Thomas , I had planned to use this little refactoring to have a central method where it is easy to add coding at one central single place. E.g. for highlighting special 'interesting' values like mem corruption patterns.

Okay, good. Just send the PR when its done. Will that replace this PR?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22894#issuecomment-2656083713