Re: Binary Compatibility: debug info for compiled Java programs

[Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>]

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.

Andrew.