Feature Request: Add tracing of native methods

[eGit]

Add tracing of native methods to BTrace.

[jbachorik]

eGit, this feature seems to be breaking class retransformation when trying to trace non-static native methods. Do you think it would be interesting to be able to trace at least static native methods?

Otherwise I will have to remove this feature.

[jbachorik]

Reopening because of #140

[eGit]

I just wanted to test the native method tracing for the first time but now it is gone again?

[jbachorik]

It is not possible to achieve this functionality with the current
limitations of the JVM class retransformation. One may need to introduce
new public non-native methods as wrappers for the original public native
methods and this is simply not possible. So I had to take it out again.
Maybe once, when JVM gets an improved class retransformation engine.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:32 PM, eGit notifications@github.com wrote:

I just wanted to test the native method tracing for the first time but now
it is gone again?

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[jbachorik]

With the current state of JVM retransform classes support it is not possible to implement this consistently - for the javaagent mode it will mostly work and for dynamic attach it will mostly not work. But it is not possible to provide any guarantees about which classes will be intercepted - it depends on whether they have already been loaded at the time BTrace is starting or not.

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