On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 17:46:45 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. > > Chris Plummer has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional > commit since the last revision: > > fix typo Marked as reviewed by kevinw (Committer). ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6887
