Re: Binary Compatibility: debug info for compiled Java programs

Andrew Cagney
2004-06-11T15:11:56Z

> Andrew Cagney writes:
> > > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 05:13, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > >
> > >>> So, I'm still unsure about how to proceed. It looks like Bryce's
> > >>> suggestion is preferable on efficiency grounds, although it might be
> > >>> possible to generate DWARF cheaply while laying out classes.
> > >
> > > Whatever we do, I'd like to see some solution that attempted to minimize
> > > communication with the inferior process (for remote debugging
> > > purposes).
> >
> > As an issue, it isn't relevant to this discussion.
>
> In either case, whatever we do, we must communicate with the target
> system to extract structure info.
>
> > Andrew asked me about the overhead of extracting data from the inferior.
> > I sketched out a number of already proposed changes changes, such as
> > having the inferior agressively supply memory, that would address the
> > problems you mention.
>
> Well, kinda sorta. Anthony is thinking about targets on the end of a wire.

So am I.

Andrew