On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:30:43 GMT, Casper Norrbin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone, `ClassPrintLayout::class_print_layout` expects internal class 
> names as its argument, but is called externally by users through `jcmd`. This 
> leads to inconsistencies with other commands. For example:
> 
> 
> jcmd <pid> VM.class_hierarchy java.lang.String
> jcmd <pid> VM.class_print_layout java/lang/String
> 
> 
> In addition, the command's output is also in the internal format. This should 
> be changed to also use the external dotted class name instead. To resolve 
> this, I added a conversion step that replaces external dotted names with 
> internal slashed names in-place before we start searching for classes. That 
> way we avoid extra allocations and string comparisons. As a side effect, this 
> now works on both internal and external names, as slashes are left untouched.
> 
> This was a previously approved PR in 
> https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/pull/2375, but did not get integrated in 
> time.
> 
> Testing:
> 
> - Tier 1
> - Manual inspection with jcmd
> 
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This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 03f94c67
Author:    Casper Norrbin <[email protected]>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/03f94c677d1310dbf38f4e54c9a017a35c310d8d
Stats:     18 lines in 2 files changed: 10 ins; 2 del; 6 mod

8383567: VM.class_print_layout should use external class names

Reviewed-by: kevinw, fparain

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/32396

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