RFR: 8245167: Top package in method profiling shows "null" in JMC

[Jaroslav Bachorík]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 1:05 PM Mario Torre <neugens at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 12:15 PM Andrey Petushkov <andrey at azul.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > This 'L' -checking code is activated only when the method in question is
> > given the array (i.e. the FQN of the class is something "[L...").
> > However the caller never applies the method to array classes, only
> > instance classes.
> > (and I've actually checked that "L.Main" class has appeared in the JMC's
> > "Top packages" window)
>
> Yeah, however it's not clear to me if this may change in the future
> since the function has a side effect that it's not entirely specified,
> that said however I think, if any, this is a bug in mainline and an
> eventual fix should come in via an additional backport and not hold
> this fix in 8u.

Totally agreed - this should be done asynchronously and not held back
by an issue in the mainline.

>
> Can you perhaps send an email to jdk-dev to check?

Andrey, can you start the discussion on jdk-dev?

Cheers,

-JB-

>
> Cheers,
> Mario
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