RFC: AccessController merge

[Andrew Haley]

Gary Benson writes:
 > Gary Benson wrote:
 > > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > > I'm a bit concerned about efficiency.  For one example: OK, we walk
 > > > the stack -- we have to do that -- but we create a string for every
 > > > method name , and the only purpose of doing so AFAICS is to compare
 > > > it with "doPrivileged".  We then throw away all of those strings we
 > > > so laboriously constructed...
 > > 
 > > I see what you mean.  Another thing is that if there is a doPrivileged
 > > there then a chunk of the generated stack trace will be ignored.  I
 > > guess Casey wanted the code he put in stacktrace.cc to be generic.
 > 
 > Ok, so I'm thinking along the lines of the attached patch to solve
 > these two problems.  I thought I'd throw it out to the list before
 > I sit down and write the native bits in case there's any obvious
 > inefficiences that would make it just as bad.  Does it look ok?

It's rather minimal.  I was expecting a bit more substance...

Andrew.