We created a jvmti agent which could tag an object on the heap then find out if the object was reachable via any GC roots.

This worked well and we had no problems for over a year but recently we started to get some strange array index out of bounds.

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The cause was the very poor documentation of the jvmtiObjectReferenceCallback call where the field information was being calculated.

The documentation was wrong in 1.5 but even in 1.6 it simply does not provide enough information to write a heap walker which can print the field names.

I.e for the JVMTI_REFERENCE_FIELD reference kind it says the following:

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Reference from an object to the value of one of its instance fields. For references of this kind the referrer_index parameter to the jvmtiObjectReferenceCallback is the index of the the instance field. The index is based on the order of all the object’s fields. This includes all fields of the directly declared static and instance fields in the class, and includes all fields (both public and private) fields declared in superclasses and superinterfaces. The index is thus calculated by summing the index of field in the directly declared class (see GetClassFields), with the total number of fields (both public and private) declared in all superclasses and superinterfaces. The index starts at zero.

This may seem ok but how do you parse the super classes and super interfaces?  The documentation states nothing about the order of the fields so do you scan all interfaces first or last, do you walk the super classes once for classes and once for interfaces?

Being very vague (even google didnt know much) it was difficult to get the output, when a leak was detected, to show the correct field.

It would randomly output fields which were the wrong type and many other issues.

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After looking though this code it was possible to figure out exactly how the class and interface heirachy should be processed.

How are we expected to use the JVMTI when its so poorly documented?

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It appears that this call fails when called from multiple threads asking for the same system icon.

Below is an example on how to show the issue. Its was tested with Java 1.6.0_07

    public void testGetSystemIcon() throws IOException,
                                           InterruptedException {
        final FileImageThread t1 = new FileImageThread(".jpg");
        final FileImageThread t2 = new FileImageThread(".jpg");
        t1.start();
        t2.start();
        t1.join();
        t2.join();
    }
 
    public class FileImageThread extends Thread {
        final File file;
 
        public FileImageThread(final String suffix) throws IOException {
            file = File.createTempFile("test", suffix);
        }
 
        @Override
        public void run() {
            FileSystemView.getFileSystemView().getSystemIcon(file);
        }
    }
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It does not hang every time, but it happens enough to be an issue.

The hang call stack is

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Thread  id=22 name=Thread-4 inState=WAITING deadlocked=false isNative=false
  sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)
  java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.park(LockSupport.java:158)
  java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.parkAndCheckInterrupt(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:747)
  java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.doAcquireSharedInterruptibly(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:905)
  java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquireSharedInterruptibly(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:1217)
  java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:218)
  java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:83)
  sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2$ComInvoker.invoke(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:495)
  sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.(Win32ShellFolder2.java:225)
  sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.getDrives(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:101)
  sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.isFileSystemRoot(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:323)
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  javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView.isFileSystemRoot(FileSystemView.java:310)
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Thread  id=21 name=Thread-3 inState=WAITING deadlocked=false isNative=false
  sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)
  java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.park(LockSupport.java:158)
  java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.parkAndCheckInterrupt(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:747)
  java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.doAcquireSharedInterruptibly(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:905)
  java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.acquireSharedInterruptibly(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:1217)
  java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:218)
  java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:83)
  sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2$ComInvoker.invoke(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:495)
  sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolder2.(Win32ShellFolder2.java:225)
  sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.getDrives(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:101)
  sun.awt.shell.Win32ShellFolderManager2.isFileSystemRoot(Win32ShellFolderManager2.java:323)
  sun.awt.shell.ShellFolder.isFileSystemRoot(ShellFolder.java:234)
  javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView.isFileSystemRoot(FileSystemView.java:310)
  com.osm.ui.FileImageUtilsTest$FileImageThread.run(FileImageUtilsTest.java:62)

No one else seemed to see this issue, but I saw it lots of times on my PC.

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  (interactive)
  (let* (
         (filename (buffer-file-name))
         (cmd)
         (result)
         )
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    (setf result (shell-command-to-string cmd))
    (message (substring result 0 (- (length result) 1)))
    ;; reload the file
    (revert-buffer t t t)
    )
  ) 
 
(global-set-key [f9] 'p4-edit)

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I couldn’t figure out the problem, till I realised that %E, scientific notation, isnt supposed to be used for doubles.

Its very surprising that printf works one way, but the scanf doesnt work on the way back.

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I wrote this little test program. It clearly shows that you should always is &lf when reading and writing doubles.

#include <stdio.h>
 
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
 
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  double d = 0;
 
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  d = 0;
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  d = 0;
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When you compile this and run it you get this

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%G = 0.000000
%f = 0.000000
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  printf
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%G = -1234
%f = -1234.000000
%lf = -1234.000000

Clear the printf works fine but the scanf cant cope with the doubles.

I’m not sure whether its documented what should happen when you use the incorrect printf or scanf variables (e.g %d) with the incorrect argument type (i.e float not a integer).

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If you open many buffers though there is no line wrapping on each buffer.

If you add the following to your .emacs file it will make side by side buffers behave like the full window.

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I dont like line wrap, especially when coding so I set the following

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I then use f12 to toggle the line wrap by adding the following

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So my whole line-wrap.el file is

;; See http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/elisp-manual-21/elisp_620.html
;; and http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/elisp.pdf

;; disable line wrap
(setq default-truncate-lines t)

;; make side by side buffers function the same as the main window
(setq truncate-partial-width-windows nil)

;; Add F12 to toggle line wrap
(global-set-key [f12] 'toggle-truncate-lines)

See 38.3 Truncation or the emacs manual for more information.