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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB and the OpenJDK JVM
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN9gPaHqDp0uEuzagB_z5dooA2qNg2r7dB7XoJLpOWBZZ_QbFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ty2ulfyp.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>
> Daniel> I'll do it if I have to, but I'd rather rely on the symbol table
> Daniel> of the JDK and manually maintained code.
>
> The new JIT API in gdb may be what you want.  You can write a .so that
> ships with the JDK that knows about JDK internals, but that plugs into
> gdb.  It doesn't expose everything, but I think would be sufficient for
> unwinding.

Neat!  I was going to say "no, the JIT API is too limited" but I'm
glad I looked first :-)  It looks like there's no NEWS entry for
Sanjoy's work, so I missed it the first time.

I wonder if this API could be implemented in Python...

-- 
Thanks,
Daniel


  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-13 19:39 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
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 [this message]
2012-02-13 19:54         ` Tom Tromey

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