Re: [rvm-research] Adding Runtime Extension

Eliot Moss <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.jikes.rvm.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/25/2014 8:38 AM, Matthew Ma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My goal is to build a runtime verifier tool to help detect junk objects for user program running on the RVM
> For the design, I hope the vm can allow my verifier to be an extension like java agent, where one can do: java -javaagent:agent.jar TestProgram to run TestProgram with my verifier).
> Would it be easier to directly modify the RVM (and make my verifier part of the VM), and if so, what classes should I modify to instantiate my verifier along with running RVM?

Why JikeRVM, Matthew?  Couldn't you do this using HotSpot or the IBM
VM, which have much more robust support for agents?

And what does "junk objects" mean anyway? :-)

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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