Jeroen,
That'll work except I was hoping to log the return value or thrown exception
if any. At least this way you are guaranteed an exit trace. I'm unfamiliar
with modifying Jikes code. Is there any sample code to illustrate this?
Thanks! -Benson
"Jeroen C.van Gelderen" wrote:
> Hi Benson, Paul,
>
> On a similar project I simply programmatically (modified Jikes) wrapped
> methods in a try {} finally {} block. The compiler is responsible (and
> has enough information to) optimize out the inefficiencies. No need to
> have a programmer do the compiler's work by sticking to a single exit
> convention.
>
> -J
>
> On Monday, December 17, 2001, at 06:24 , Paul Glezen wrote:
>
> > Hi Benson,
> >
> > It's not as easy as it looks to do "intelligently". While it is often
> > taught that methods should have a single entry point and exit point, not
> > many programmers adhear to this. It is not at all uncommon to find
> > return
> > statements in if-blocks and try-catch blocks. Sometimes the exit logic
> > can
> > get very convoluted.
> >
> > I've always been partial to single exit logic. I didn't become a fan
> > until
> > trying to insert trace statements, just as you describe, in other
> > people's
> > code. It can be a nightmare.
> >
> > - Paul
> >
> > Paul Glezen
> > Consulting IT Specialist
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> >
> >
> > Benson Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@porivo.com on 12/17/2001 01:57:15 PM
> >
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm interested in automatically inserting log4j trace statements at the
> > beginning of all methods and right before the end of a method (return
> > statement or thrown exception). I'm presuming most people have worked
> > on projects with extensive class libraries and it would be great if
> > there was a class parser that could intelligently insert log4j
> > statements automatically. If there isn't anything out there like that,
> > does anyone know of a java class parser that can be used to do this sort
> > of thing? Thoughts or ideas? Thanks!
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