Debugging the C++ interpreter

Every so often I find myself wanting to add debug printing to the C++ interpreter for specific methods. I can never remember how I did it the last time and have to figure it out all over again, so here’s how:

diff -r 4d8381231af6 openjdk-ecj/hotspot/src/share/vm/interpreter/bytecodeInterpreter.cpp
--- a/openjdk-ecj/hotspot/src/share/vm/interpreter/bytecodeInterpreter.cpp  Tue Apr 21 09:50:43 2009 +0100
+++ b/openjdk-ecj/hotspot/src/share/vm/interpreter/bytecodeInterpreter.cpp  Wed Apr 22 11:13:35 2009 +0100
@@ -555,6 +555,15 @@
          topOfStack stack_base(),
          “Stack top out of range”);

+  bool interesting = false;
+  if (istate->msg() != initialize) {
+    ResourceMark rm;
+    if (!strcmp(istate->method()->name_and_sig_as_C_string(),
+                “spec.benchmarks._202_jess.jess.Rete.FindDeffunction(Ljava/lang/String;)Lspec/benchmarks/_202_jess/jess/Deffunction;”)) {
+      interesting = true;
+    }
+  }
+
   switch (istate->msg()) {
     case initialize: {
       if (initialized++) ShouldNotReachHere(); // Only one initialize call

The trick is getting the fully-qualified name of the method right: the method name contains dots, but the class names in its signature contain slashes. You’re there once you have that down.

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