JDK-8211343: nsk_jvmti_parseoptions should handle multiple suboptions

Gary Adams gary.adams at oracle.com
Thu Dec 20 13:18:46 UTC 2018


During some earlier jvmti test debugging, I noticed that it was not 
possible to
add a quick argument to the current tests and rerun the test. e.g. 
expand "waittime=5" to
"waittime=5,verbose". I tracked down the options parsing in 
jvmti_tools.cpp and saw some
comments that only a single option could be parsed.

So I filed this bug to revisit the issue for the next release:

   Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211343

I think the option parsing should be ripped out and redone,
but for now I think a simple tweak to use strsep(), might go a long way
to solving the multiple option support. I just started testing,
but wanted to know if anyone else has been down this rabbit hole
before.


diff --git 
a/test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/share/jvmti/jvmti_tools.cpp 
b/test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/share/jvmti/jvmti_tools.cpp
--- a/test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/share/jvmti/jvmti_tools.cpp
+++ b/test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/share/jvmti/jvmti_tools.cpp
@@ -196,22 +196,14 @@
  }


-/**
- *
- * The current option will not perform more than one
- * single option which given, this is due to places explained
- * in this question.
- *
- **/
-
   /*
-  * This whole play can be reduced with simple StringTokenizer (strtok).
-  *
+   * Parse a comma or space separated list of options.
    */

  int nsk_jvmti_parseOptions(const char options[]) {
      size_t len;
      const char* opt;
+    char *str = strdup(options);
      int success = NSK_TRUE;

      context.options.string = NULL;
@@ -232,7 +224,7 @@
      context.options.string[len] = '\0';
      context.options.string[len+1] = '\0';

-    for (opt = context.options.string; ;) {
+    while ((opt = strsep(&str, " ,")) != NULL) {
          const char* opt_end;
          const char* val_sep;
          int opt_len=0;



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