On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 01:08:04 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> "whatis" is one of the old clhsdb commands that was written in javascript and > lost when Nashorn support was removed. The old "whatis" is the same as the > old "findpc", but also called LoadObject.lookup() on the address and also > tried to determine the C++ Type of the address. However, with the > improvements made to PointerFinder by JDK-8247514, findpc now also includes > support for this (plus other types of address lookups), so these two commands > will do the same thing. I'm still adding "whatis" since some people might > still rely on it from when it worked in JDK 8, and may not know that findpc > will do the same. Looks good. Thanks, Serguei ------------- Marked as reviewed by sspitsyn (Reviewer). PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6887
