On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 19:58:53 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> clhsdb lost support for the "mem" command when javascript support was
>> removed from SA. This PR is re-adding it by implementing it in Java. The
>> description of the CR contains all the details.
>>
>> Regarding the clhsdb.html changes for the "examine" command, they are just
>> correctly specifying the existing syntax. No change was actually made to the
>> syntax.
>>
>> The changes made to the "examine" command are part of a consolidation effort
>> to better share code between "examine" and "mem". "examine" has no
>> functional changes.
>
> Chris Plummer has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional
> commits since the last revision:
>
> - Fix issue with address range patterns. For some reason they have always
> allowed some extra lower case letters at the end of the pattern that just get
> ignored. I removed support for this since sometimes it resulted in bad
> address ranges producing an exception rather than a usage() message.
> - Fix missing return after calling usage()
src/jdk.hotspot.agent/doc/clhsdb.html line 54:
> 52: dumpreplaydata <address> | -a | <thread_id>
> [>replay.txt] <font color="red">dump replay data into a file</font>
> 53: echo [ true | false ] <font color="red">turn on/off command echo
> mode</font>
> 54: examine { address[/count] | address,address } <font color="red">show
> contents of memory from given address</font>
It would cover both input variants if to say:
"show contents of memory range"
src/jdk.hotspot.agent/doc/clhsdb.html line 70:
> 68: livenmethods <font color="red">show all live nmethods</font>
> 69: longConstant [ name [ value ] ] <font color="red">print out hotspot
> long constant(s)s</font>
> 70: mem [ -v ] { address[/count] | address,address } <font color="red">show
> contents of memory. optionally include "findpc" info for addresses</font>
The same as above.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6902
