RFR(M): 7165259 Remove BugSpot

[Markus Grönlund]

Hi Staffan,

Looks good (not a Reviewer). 

Thanks for taking on this cleanup.

Markus

-----Original Message-----
From: Staffan Larsen 
Sent: den 21 februari 2013 16:39
To: serviceability-dev at openjdk.java.net serviceability-dev at openjdk.java.net; hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net Developers
Subject: RFR(M): 7165259 Remove BugSpot

Please review the following change to remove the BugSpot UI for the Serviceability Agent. 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 and would like to clean up the code. One effect of this change is that PStack and PMap will no longer be able to operate on executables other than the JVM.

This change was first proposed last year in this thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/serviceability-dev/2012-April/005811.html

This change also removes some old JVMDI code in SA (JVMDI is no longer supported in HotSpot).


bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7165259

webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/7165259/webrev.00/


Thanks,
/Staffan