Re: Binary Compatibility: debug info for compiled Java programs

Andrew Haley
2004-06-09T14:20:42Z

Per Bothner writes:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Bryce pointed out that there is another solution that he favours,
> > which involves gdb reading libgcj's metadata.
>
> There is already (somewhat bit-rotted) code to do this - but of
> course for the old ABI.
>
> Note that we need a solution that also handles dynamically-loaded
> interpreted or (future) jit-compiled classes.
>
> That argues for having gdb reading meta-data from the interior.

Or generating info on the fly; surely either would do.

Andrew.