From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25032 invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2002 17:29:20 -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 24996 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 17:29:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (24.114.42.213) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2002 17:29:19 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E91F3D8C; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:29:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C504464.2010405@cygnus.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:29:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020103 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz , Jim blandy Cc: Johan Walles , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Trouble debugging a Java Virtual Machine on Linux References: <3C500AAC.5030709@appeal.se> <20020124122126.B26301@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg00289.txt.bz2 > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 02:22:52PM +0100, Johan Walles wrote: > >> Now, I'd like very much to get some input from somebody knowledgable >> about gdb. First, is there already some simple way of interfacing with >> gdb to tell it to use our functions for managing processes and not its >> own? If not, does patching gdb seem like a reasonable solution? What >> would have to happen for these patches to get accepted into the official >> gdb? > > > Oh, the other thing I meant to mention. For your last question: > - the patches would need to be clean and not overly target-specific > - the copyright on them would need to be assigned to the FSF. I don't > remember the address to ask for paperwork - fsf-records@gnu.org? FYI, in the cace of GDB, JimB acts as the assignments contact and co-ordinates this. Andrew