Re: Instrumentation in native code

Nathan Ricci <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.objectweb.asm
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           I've had some luck using a JVMTI agent, and piping byte
codes over to a separate process that is using ASM. This is not fast,
but you only pay the cost once per class.

                      --Nathan Ricci


On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Prashant Deva <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a bytecode instrumentation library similar to
> asm for C/C++.
> Since ASM is written in Java, it can only be used within a javaagent.
> This limits its ability to instrument classes loaded before the java agent
> loads.
> For example, we would like to add fields to the java.lang.Thread class.
> This can only be done through a native agent, since by the time the
> javaagent loads, the Thread class is already loaded and thus we cannot add
> fields to it.
> Prashant
>
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