Name: egR10015 Date: 04/30/2002



Hprof agent shipped with HotSpot 1.4.1-b10 fails to pass the following tests:

nsk/hprof/options/format/format006
nsk/hprof/options/format/format007

from testbase_nsk on all platforms.

The reason is that HPROF does not support options cpu=times|old and monitor=y
with the option format=b.
I guess, this capability should be implemented in future releases of HPROF, or
at least this issue must be documented. Neither the following public document:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/jvmpi/jvmpi.html#hprof

nor HPROF itself being run with -Xrunhprof:help say nothing about it.

To reproduce the bug run any program with HPROF as follows:

$ ~/hotspot/jdk1.4.1/solsparc/bin/java -Xrunhprof:cpu=times,format=b HelloWorld
HPROF ERROR: cpu=times|old is not supported with format=b
$ ~/hotspot/jdk1.4.1/solsparc/bin/java -Xrunhprof:cpu=old,format=b HelloWorld
HPROF ERROR: cpu=times|old is not supported with format=b
$ ~/hotspot/jdk1.4.1/solsparc/bin/java -Xrunhprof:monitor=y,format=b HelloWorld
HPROF ERROR: monitor=y is not supported with format=b

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