On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 00:56:49 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> SA has the ability to fetch the thread's registers via the thread context.
>> It would be nice to allow access to the registers from clhsdb. This plays in
>> well with the enhancements being done to PointerFinder as part of
>> JDK-8247514. Many of the register values will then be automatically
>> displayed as symbols, Methods, Threads, stack offsets, nmethods, interpreter
>> codelets, etc.
>>
>> During some recent debugging I did I found it useful to dump a thread's
>> registers in this manner. Although in this case I was inlining the code in
>> the part of SA where I wanted to see the registers, having it as a clhsdb
>> command would not only be useful to user, but also useful when debugging SA
>> because it would serve as a code snippet to copy-n-paste where needed.
>>
>> The syntax is:
>>
>> threadcontext [-v] { -a | id }
>>
>> Where -a displays all threads, and "id" is used to display a specific
>> thread. This is the same argument syntax as some other commands that let
>> you choose all threads or just one thread, such as the "thread" and "where"
>> commands. -v just means more verbose output, whereas without it for the most
>> part each register printed will just take up one line.
>
> Chris Plummer has updated the pull request incrementally with four additional
> commits since the last revision:
>
> - Update the copyright this time.
> - Really update the copyright this time.
> - Update copyright and only print the register name.
> - Update copyright and remove @bug reference
Marked as reviewed by kevinw (Committer).
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6925
