printing collector statistics

David Daney ddaney@avtrex.com
Fri May 4 00:05:00 GMT 2007


Delvin Defoe wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I am implementing a garbage collector that supports multiple threads
> on multiple processors.  The collector mostly works however, I would
> like to instrument it to generate timiing and other statistics for the
> main thread and for every other thread.  For the main thread, I would
> need to know where it begins and where it ends its execution.  I
> believe it starts its execution in function _Jv_RunMain (vm_args,
> klass, name, argc, argv, is_jar) in file libjava/prims.cc.  I was
> expecting to call the function that prints the statistis for that
> thread at the end of this function.  However, that does not work.  Any
> ideas on where I should call that function?
> 
> For other threads, I get it to work by placing the call at the end of
> function really_start(void *x) in file libjava/posix-threads.cc.
> 
> I would appreciate any feedback you can give.
> 

Look at:

gnu/java/lang/natMainThread.cc

David Daney



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