> - I will provide more explanations about my comment on derived pointer > support early next week.
First, let me describe what I mean by "derived pointer" (might be well-known term to those who worked with the Hotspot JVM) This is a pointer which is logically bound to some "base" java object. For example, pointer to a memory location holding an array element (regardless of the element type) is a derived pointer, and the array object itself is the base object. Derived pointers are "produced" by JIT-ed code (e.g. to quickly access array elements, current element's address might be kept in a register), and during GC their value must be updated whenever the GC moves the base object (basically, derived pointer value should change by the same number the address of the base object changes). To support that, derived pointer is reported to GC as "live" always together with its base (whose live range is sometimes artificially stretched to match one of the derived pointer). At least two VMs I worked with employ this concept: Hotspot and Harmony. My comment was whether it is possible to find/identify live derived pointers + bases through a JavaStackFrame instance. It might be interesting for an engineer analyzing a post-mortem dump to learn where the derived pointers and their bases are for the same reasons as it might be interesting for him to find "usual" heap roots. Hope this helps, Konst Intel Novosibirsk Closed Joint Stock Company Intel A/O Registered legal address: Krylatsky Hills Business Park, 17 Krylatskaya Str., Bldg 4, Moscow 121614, Russian Federation -----Original Message----- From: Bobrovsky, Konstantin S Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 11:13 PM To: 'kato-s...@incubator.apache.org'; kato-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Conference call Hello all, Quick follow up to the meeting: - JavaMethod In many VMs each method may have multiple compiled versions (even co-existing at the same time). I think the API should provide access to all of them. Will client be able to access all of them via getCompiledSections()? - ImageStackFrame It would be good if the API would support architectures with additional register stack (such as Itanium). E.g. through an additional pointer to the base of the register stack frame. - I will provide more explanations about my comment on derived pointer support early next week. Thanks, Konst Intel Novosibirsk Closed Joint Stock Company Intel A/O Registered legal address: Krylatsky Hills Business Park, 17 Krylatskaya Str., Bldg 4, Moscow 121614, Russian Federation -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Monteith [mailto:stuk...@stoo.me.uk] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:32 PM To: kato-dev@incubator.apache.org; kato-s...@incubator.apache.org Subject: Conference call Hello all, I have posted the presentation that we will be going through on the Kato Wiki. You can link to it here: http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KATO/API+Walkthrough The recording will be made available in the same place, at the very least the transcription and notes will be there. If you are unable to join the meeting on Sametime Unyte here: https://www.webdialogs.com/join/ you will should be able to go through the presentation from the wiki. Speak to you at 1500. Stuart
