hg: loom/loom: 2 new changesets

[Ron Pressler]

What would you use the ContinuationScope in StackWalker for?

I only had debugging in mind.


On January 8, 2019 at 10:07:06 AM, forax at univ-mlv.fr (forax at univ-mlv.fr) wrote:

it can be protected by a Lookup ?  

Rémi  

----- Mail original -----  
> De: "Alan Bateman" <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>  
> À: "Remi Forax" <forax at univ-mlv.fr>, "Ron Pressler" <ron.pressler at oracle.com>  
> Cc: "loom-dev" <loom-dev at openjdk.java.net>  
> Envoyé: Mardi 8 Janvier 2019 08:46:29  
> Objet: Re: hg: loom/loom: 2 new changesets  

> On 07/01/2019 22:33, Remi Forax wrote:  
>> Hi,  
>> for the StackWalker API, i would prefer to get the ContinuationScope instead of  
>> the name of the continuation scope,  
>> given that the continuation scope can be a user defined object, it means you can  
>> insert user defined object in the stacktrace which will be very helpful for  
>> people that write interpreters on top of Java.  
>>  
> A ContinuationScope is something that needs to be guarded closely so  
> leaking a reference when doing a stack walk would need a lot of  
> consideration. Also STE is Serializable so there are several issues  
> there too.  
>  
> -Alan