Currently the heap functions in JVMTI do not allow an agent to access the primitive or primitive array fields of an object. When doing memory analysis a primitive can't keep an object alive but it may be useful to see the char[] value of a string.
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In addition it would be desirable to be able to determine an array length during the iteration - this is important if a profiler doesn't instrument the array allocation site (newarray bytecode) and is tagging objects as they are encountered during the iteration.