From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2498 invoked by alias); 9 Jun 2004 14:20:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2488 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2004 14:20:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com) (81.96.64.123) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 9 Jun 2004 14:20:40 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i59EIxVL016517; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:19:09 +0100 Received: (from aph@localhost) by redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i59EIxoW016513; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:18:59 +0100 From: Andrew Haley MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16583.7250.975750.930374@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:20:00 -0000 To: Per Bothner Cc: java@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Binary Compatibility: debug info for compiled Java programs In-Reply-To: <40C71AEB.4070802@bothner.com> References: <16582.65277.81118.189889@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <40C71AEB.4070802@bothner.com> X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 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.