On 09/11/2015 07:15 AM, David Holmes wrote: > On 11/09/2015 12:56 AM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote: >>> >>> Sure, if you like, but that's a detail. We are arguing about what >>> colour to paint the bike shed. :) >> >> >> The reason it may be more than just a bikeshed is because if this requires >> more cleverness in the segfault handler, then it's yet more work to make >> this happen. I agree it's an implementation detail, but I don't think it's >> trivial (unless someone comes along and says that modifying the trap >> handler to account for this type of scenario is trivial). One would also >> need to modify the safepoint code in the VM to allow skipping all the >> housekeeping it does typically, but I suspect this part is fairly easy. > > Not sure how the safepoint code is supposed to know this particular > safepoint is "special".
I guess I don't know what the problem is: when you request a safepoint you also pass a code saying what you want to happen. Andrew.
