> 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
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6925/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6925/files/936b5579..417dd9cb
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=6925&range=01
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=6925&range=00-01
Stats: 5 lines in 3 files changed: 0 ins; 1 del; 4 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6925.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/6925/head:pull/6925
PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6925
