RFR: 7093328: JVMTI: jvmtiPrimitiveFieldCallback always report 0's for static primitives

[serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com]

On 8/29/12 7:25 AM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
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> Very nice find:
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>> I did some research (archeology), the change that introduced this:
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>> changeset:   2223:c7f3d0b4570f
>> user:        never
>> date:        Fri Mar 18 16:00:34 2011 -0700
>> summary:     7017732: move static fields into Class to prepare for 
>> perm ten removal
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> I had forgotten that static fields moved from the instanceKlass
> into Class. The original code from 2005 did indeed work as expected
> way back then. In fact, there were three such uses in jvmtiTagMap.cpp
> back then and it looks like the other two uses were updated to use
> the Java mirror and one was missed.

Right. This explains how it did happened.

Thanks,
Serguei
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> Dan
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