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/* VMStackWalker.java -- Reference implementation of VM hooks for stack access

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package gnu.classpath;

import gnu.gcj.RawData;

/**

 * This class provides access to the classes on the Java stack

 * for reflection and security purposes.

 *

 * <p>

 * This class is only available to privileged code (i.e., code loaded

 * by the bootstrap loader).

 *

 * @author John Keiser

 * @author Eric Blake <ebb9@email.byu.edu>

 * @author Archie Cobbs

 * @author Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>

 * @author Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>

 */

public final class VMStackWalker

{

  /**

   * Get a list of all the classes currently executing methods on the

   * Java stack. <code>getClassContext()[0]</code> is the class associated

   * with the currently executing method, i.e., the method that called

   * <code>VMStackWalker.getClassContext()</code> (possibly through

   * reflection). So you may need to pop off these stack frames from

   * the top of the stack:

   * <ul>

   * <li><code>VMStackWalker.getClassContext()</code>

   * <li><code>Method.invoke()</code>

   * </ul>

   *

   * @return an array of the declaring classes of each stack frame

   */

  public static native Class[] getClassContext();

  /**

   * Get the class associated with the method invoking the method

   * invoking this method, or <code>null</code> if the stack is not

   * that deep (e.g., invoked via JNI invocation API). This method

   * is an optimization for the expression <code>getClassContext()[1]</code>

   * and should return the same result.

   *

   * <p>

   * When compiling to native code gcj translates calls to this

   * method into calls to <code>getCallingClass(addr)</code>, with

   * <code>addr</code> being the address of the method calling this

   * method. <code>getCallingClass(addr)</code> does not unwind the

   * stack, so is therefore more efficient.

   */

  public static native Class getCallingClass();

  /**

   * Get the class associated with the method invoking the method

   * invoking this method, or <code>null</code> if the stack is not

   * that deep (e.g., invoked via JNI invocation API).

   *

   * @param addr The address of the method invoking this method.

   */

  private static native Class getCallingClass(RawData addr);

  /**

   * Get the class loader associated with the Class returned by

   * <code>getCallingClass()</code>, or <code>null</code> if no such class

   * exists or it is the boot loader. This method is an optimization for the

   * expression <code>VMStackWalker.getClassLoader(getClassContext()[1])</code>

   * and should return the same result.

   *

   * <p>

   * When compiling to native code gcj translates calls to this

   * method into calls to <code>getCallingClassLoader(addr)</code>,

   * with <code>addr</code> being the address of the method calling

   * this method. <code>getCallingClassLoader(addr)</code> does not

   * unwind the stack, so is therefore more efficient.

   */

  public static native ClassLoader getCallingClassLoader();

  /**

   * Get the class loader associated with the Class returned by

   * <code>getCallingClass()</code>, or <code>null</code> if no

   * such class exists or it is the boot loader.

   *

   * @param addr The address of the method invoking this method.

   */

  private static native ClassLoader getCallingClassLoader(RawData addr);

  /**

   * Retrieve the class's ClassLoader, or <code>null</code> if loaded

   * by the bootstrap loader. I.e., this should return the same thing

   * as {@link java.lang.VMClass#getClassLoader}. This duplicate version

   * is here to work around access permissions.

   */

  public static native ClassLoader getClassLoader(Class cl);

  /**

   * Walk up the stack and return the first non-null class loader.

   * If there aren't any non-null class loaders on the stack, return null.

   */

  public static native ClassLoader firstNonNullClassLoader();

}