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From: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB and the OpenJDK JVM
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120210172408.GC7788@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN9gPaG-tb9Zv8GAO=htWqhg=LrQWxsv3qp82dJa=PhcQpJjAg@mail.gmail.com>

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > Has anyone investigated non-trivial integration between GDB and this
> > > (or any other) JVM?  So far I haven't turned up anything useful.  Some
> > > examples of the sorts of integration I mean:
> > >
> > > * Showing information about Java objects given JNI handles
> > > * Interleaving Java frames in the stack trace
> > > * Fabricating unwind information for JIT'd code
> > > * Automatically handling SEGVs related to the garbage collector
> > >   without hiding SEGVs for native code
> >
> > I don't know of anybody who has done any work in this area.  I do know
> > that HotSpot has a number of functions designed solely to be called by
> > debuggers or debug code, and it's possible that #1 and #3 are covered
> > that way.  None of this stuff is documented anywhere I know of so it's
> > worth asking on one of the HotSpot lists in case somebody can help.
> 
> Thanks!  Is there a list you'd recommend?

Probably this one:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/hotspot-dev

Cheers,
Gary

-- 
http://gbenson.net/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-10 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-07 19:58 Daniel Jacobowitz
2012-02-09 16:16 ` Gary Benson
2012-02-09 18:33   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2012-02-09 20:21     ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-02-09 20:47       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2012-02-09 21:15         ` Philippe Waroquiers
2012-02-13 18:39           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2012-02-10 17:24     ` Gary Benson [this message]
2012-02-13  9:11 ` Mark Wielaard
2012-02-13 18:44   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2012-02-13 18:57     ` Tom Tromey
2012-02-13 19:39       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2012-02-13 19:54         ` Tom Tromey

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