Removing BugSpot

[Kevin Walls]

Hi Staffan,

If hearsay is useful to you to support his change, I haven't seen or 
heard of anybody using the SA's Bugspot on non-Java processes/cores, and 
we haven't publicised that it was possible...

Regards
Kevin


On 16/04/12 13:23, Staffan Larsen wrote:
> Here is an early webrev of the changes I'm working on.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/remove-bugspot/webrev/ 
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Esla/remove-bugspot/webrev/>
>
> This isn't a formal code review yet, but I'll be happy for any 
> feedback on the changes.
>
> Thanks,
> /Staffan
>
>
> On 16 apr 2012, at 10:51, Krystal Mok wrote:
>
>> Hi Staffan,
>>
>> Alright, then I'm ok with this :-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kris
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Staffan Larsen 
>> <staffan.larsen at oracle.com <mailto:staffan.larsen at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Krystal,
>>
>>     Those tools can all use HotSpotAgent instead without any loss of
>>     functionality.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     /Staffan
>>
>>
>>     On 16 apr 2012, at 10:21, Krystal Mok wrote:
>>
>>>     Hi Staffan,
>>>
>>>     There are quite a few tools depending on BugSpotAgent for
>>>     attaching. At least all tools that inherit from
>>>     sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.Tool do.
>>>     Removing the BugSpot frontend shouldn't affect those tools, or
>>>     would it?
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Kris
>>>
>>>     On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Staffan Larsen
>>>     <staffan.larsen at oracle.com <mailto:staffan.larsen at oracle.com>>
>>>     wrote:
>>>
>>>         All,
>>>
>>>         I'd like to remove the BugSpot front end from SA in an
>>>         effort to clean up the SA code and reduce the number of
>>>         implementations. My understanding is that BugSpot was
>>>         intended as a more general native debugger not only focused
>>>         on the JVM, but that it was never fully implemented. I don't
>>>         think there is a need for a general-purpose debugger in SA.
>>>
>>>         The features that will change are:
>>>         * BugSpot graphical UI will be removed
>>>         * PStack and PMap will no longer be able to operate on
>>>         executables other than the JVM
>>>         * Some code only referenced from BugSpot will be removed
>>>
>>>         Does anyone know of a reason this is not a good idea? I
>>>         don't have the full history of SA nor all the use cases so I
>>>         would appreciate feedback.
>>>
>>>         Thanks,
>>>         /Staffan
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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