Name: clC74495 Date: 07/31/98


Carlos.Lucasius@Canada (July 31, 1998):

In his bug report (see below), the submitter is asking many questions.
He is not a licensee, so I don't believe he is entitled to this kind of
support. Anyway, this is what his RFE comes down to:

"I am interested in getting at the return value of a method once a
 Frame_Pop event has been detected. At the moment in JVMDI, once
 a Frame_Pop event has been detected, there seems to be no way of
 looking at the return value of the method that cause the event in the
 first place."

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BUG REPORT FOLLOWS:

Hi there,

Another JVMDI question, in the jvmdi.h file
distributed with JDK 1.2 beta 4, I found the
following quote:

/*
 * Operand Stack
 *
 * operations on operand stack to be added later **
 */

Now in the documentation for JBug in the status
section for JVMDI (URL: 'http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/jbug/doc/jvmdi-status.html' )
it mentions that the implementation and interface are complete and fairly stable,
does this mean that the operand stack functions have been
disgarded or is there still work being done on them, and
if there is still work being done is there any idea
in which release/beta version it will be included?

My primary reason for asking is that I am interested in
getting at the return value of a method once a Frame_Pop
event has been detected. At the moment in JVMDI, once a
Frame_Pop event has been detected, there seems to be
no way of looking at the return value of the method
that cause the event in the first place.

Is there a current workaround to this or are there plans
to include functionality to this effect in later
versions, and if not, can I request that it be
considered for an extension to JVMDI.

Thanks alot once again for all your help.
(Review ID: 36159)
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