On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 22:40:57 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> 3 things to cleanup in this area:
> 
> (1) The JDWP agent uses `JNI GetEnv(JVMTI_VERSION_1)` to get a JVMTI 
> environment. If `GetEnv` fails the JDWP agent prints this:
> 
> `ERROR: JDWP unable to access JVMTI Version 1 (0x30010000), is your J2SE a 
> 1.5 or newer version? JNIEnv's GetEnv() returned -3`
> 
> The text "is your J2SE a 1.5 or newer version?" dates from JDK 5 when JVMTI 
> was introduced and doesn't make sense now.
> 
> (2) `JVMTI_VERSION_1` suggests that the JDWP agent is looking for a JVMTI v1 
> environment when it really wants the latest. `GetEnv` should request 
> `JVMTI_VERSION` so that it always requests the current version.
> 
> (3) There is some outdated compatibility checking between runtime and compile 
> time versions of JVMTI that date back to the 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 era, and are 
> no longer needed.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: ccb94acc
Author:    Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/ccb94acc442767a7047756806c8dc7ecacd8bae9
Stats:     77 lines in 2 files changed: 11 ins; 61 del; 5 mod

8287812: Cleanup JDWP agent GetEnv initialization

Reviewed-by: alanb, sspitsyn

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11602

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