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The Synchronized Native Problem

I haven’t done any serious tests with the synchronized method to block instrumentor, but even if everything checks out, there’s still a problem with synchronized native methods. Those have to be instrumented at the call site. I can’t think of a different way. Assume there is a method synchronized native void syncNative(). Then the call

...
syncNative();
...

will have to be changed into

...
synchronized(this) {
syncNative();
}
...

where syncNative is not actually synchronized anymore. Then the synchronized block will have to be instrumented. This is still a different strategy than the one I used before. We’ll see how this goes.

Fortunately, the number of synchronized native methods is relatively small:

class com.sun.java.util.jar.pack.NativeUnpack:
   initIDs
   start
   getNextFile
   getUnusedInput
   finish
   setOption
   getOption

class sun.awt.DebugHelperImpl:
   printlnImpl
   printImpl
   setCTracingOn

class sun.awt.image.codec.JPEGImageDecoderImpl:
   readJPEGStream
   writeJPEGStream

class sun.awt.windows.WDefaultFontCharset:
   canConvert

class sun.awt.windows.WMenuItemPeer:
   _dispose

class sun.awt.windows.WRobotPeer:
   _dispose()

class sun.awt.windows.WScrollPanePeer:
   setScrollPosition
   setSpans

class java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl:
   bind0
   peek
   peekData
   receive0

class java.text.Bidi:
   nativeBidiChars

class sun.font.FileFontStrike:
   getNullScalerContext

class sun.awt.windows.WWindowPeer:
   reshapeFrame

class sun.font.Type1Font:
   getGlyphCode

class sun.font.TrueTypeFont:
   getGlyphPoint

class sun.font.FileFont:
   getNullScaler
   getFontMetrics
   getGlyphAdvance
   getGlyphMetrics
   getGlyphImage
   getGlyphOutlineBounds
   getGlyphOutline
   getGlyphVectorOutline

class sun.font.FontManager:
   getFontPath
   setNativeFontPath

class sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer:
   pShow
   hide
   enable
   disable
   updateWindow
   reshape
   dispose
   setFont
   start

class java.io.WinNTFileSystem:
   deleteOnExit

class java.io.Win32FileSystem:
   deleteOnExit

class java.lang.Throwable:
   fillInStackTrace

Ugh. Relatively.

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