From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29494 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2004 17:57:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 29484 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2004 17:57:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (207.189.223.52) by sourceware.org with QMTP; 24 Jun 2004 17:57:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 8351 invoked from network); 24 Jun 2004 18:17:02 -0000 Received: from te0216.peakpeak.com (HELO fleche.redhat.com) ([204.144.238.216]) (envelope-sender ) by email3.peakpeak.com (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Jun 2004 18:17:02 -0000 Received: by fleche.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B456D4F80C8; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:44:47 -0600 (MDT) To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Andrew Haley , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA]: Java Inferior Call Take 2 References: <40A9264C.4060404@redhat.com> <20040617030603.GC23443@nevyn.them.org> <40D20494.2020608@redhat.com> <20040619235857.GA18759@nevyn.them.org> <16598.64375.217285.743094@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <16601.25623.949217.642524@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <20040623134742.GA24612@nevyn.them.org> <40D9FC3B.3030700@redhat.com> <20040623230138.GA6426@nevyn.them.org> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com X-Attribution: Tom Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:57:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20040623230138.GA6426@nevyn.them.org> Message-ID: <873c4kq29c.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00513.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz writes: Daniel> In C++, the debug information marks whether a constructor was written Daniel> by the user (i.e. the type really contains a constructor) or by the Daniel> compiler (i.e. implicit). I imagine Java's debug information has the Daniel> same thing. The information is there, though I don't know whether gcj puts it into the .o. Daniel> (This shouldn't affect breakpointing it for users who know the Daniel> constructor exists.) It is also actually useful on occasion to put a breakpoint on . This can let you see when your class is initialized, and it will let you step through the static blocks and static field initializers. Tom