Improvements for Xtrace String printing feature #20878
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@h3110n3rv3 Please address the concersn regarding Strings being used as a receiver for method calls (It would be great to see String contents for this references as well). |
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The changes reflect the feature request eclipse-openj9#20878. Print string contents for this references. Also, print address for string arguments and returns. Closes: eclipse-openj9#20878 Signed-off-by: Nick Kamal <[email protected]>
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The changes reflect the feature request eclipse-openj9#20878. Print string contents for this references. Also, print address for string arguments and returns. Closes: eclipse-openj9#20878 Signed-off-by: Nick Kamal <[email protected]>
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The changes reflect the feature request eclipse-openj9#20878. Print string contents for this references. Also, print address for string arguments and returns. Closes: eclipse-openj9#20878 Signed-off-by: Nick Kamal <[email protected]>
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The changes reflect the feature request eclipse-openj9#20878. Print string contents for this references. Also, print address for string arguments and returns. Closes: eclipse-openj9#20878 Signed-off-by: Nick Kamal <[email protected]>
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The changes reflect the feature request eclipse-openj9#20878. Print string contents for this references. Also, print address for string arguments and returns. Closes: eclipse-openj9#20878 Signed-off-by: Nick Kamal <[email protected]>
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The changes reflect the feature request eclipse-openj9#20878. Print string contents for this references. Also, print address for string arguments and returns. Closes: eclipse-openj9#20878 Signed-off-by: Nick Kamal <[email protected]>
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Suggested improvements for the new Xtrace String printing feature introduced for #16416:
First,
thisreferences for String objects are still shown only as addresses. For example on the first and second lines here:It would be great to see String contents for
thisreferences as well.Second, the Strings' contents are now printed instead of their addresses, but there are situations where having both would be useful - for example, if you wanted to locate the String objects in a dump that was taken alongside the trace.
Finally, would it be possible to print the contents of
char[]instances (and maybe evenbyte[]) in the same way? A text representation of abyte[](e.g. interpreting each byte as an ASCII codepoint) wouldn't always be useful, but there are definitely times when it would be.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: