RFR(M): 7165259 Remove BugSpot (original) (raw)

Kevin Walls kevin.walls at oracle.com
Fri Feb 22 06:44:51 PST 2013

Hi Staffan -

This looks good, and I don't believe it breaks anything I use, or hear of being used (anecdotally: sightings of BugSpot in use to my knowledge are very very limited, and not recent!)

Thanks Kevin

On 21/02/13 15:38, Staffan Larsen wrote:

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/viewbug.do?bugid=7165259 webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/7165259/webrev.00/ Thanks, /Staffan

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