Anyone know if JVMTI is Keeping up with JSR292?

John Rose john.r.rose at oracle.com
Wed Jun 29 16:24:40 PDT 2011


Mark, I'm sorry to report that JVMTI interaction with 292 is a known flaw in the JDK 7 FCS, to be addressed in an update release.

Like performance tuning, debugger support is something we will be addressing after FCS.

-- John

On Jun 28, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Mark Roos wrote:

> I am using jvmti along with jdi to build a debugger for our Smalltalk on 292 implementation. 
> 
> Most of it works but when I do stepping it hangs when it gets to one of my methods.  Either due 
> to the invokeDynamic instruction or perhaps due to it being in an Anonymous class.  Stack frames 
> look correct.  And I can query stact vars just fine.  Method entry events also fail. 
> 
> Any advice is welcome 
> 
> thanks 
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