From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17544 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2003 16:10:23 -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 17537 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2003 16:10:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hawaii.kealia.com) (209.3.10.89) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Sep 2003 16:10:22 -0000 Received: by hawaii.kealia.com (Postfix, from userid 2049) id 858AECB2C; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:10:21 -0700 (PDT) To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , ezannoni@redhat.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: 6.0 NEWS; tls tests on gdb-6? References: <200309112358.h8BNwjjZ010615@duracef.shout.net> <3F611DAE.5020708@redhat.com> <3F6881B0.4090805@redhat.com> <3F6CB4A3.1020500@redhat.com> From: David Carlton Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:10:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3F6CB4A3.1020500@redhat.com> (Andrew Cagney's message of "Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:12:19 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00271.txt.bz2 On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:12:19 -0400, Andrew Cagney said: >> A long-standing bug involving Java and dynamic libraries has been >> fixed. Support for Java debugging remains minimal, however. > Do you have something more specific? That could mean anything. Yeah, you're right: that is vague. The long-standing bug is that it had been the case that, if you did something to trigger a dynamic library being loaded after you started debugging a Java program with GDB, then GDB would seg fault or do something else to make your life miserable. Bug 1322 is the latest problem in this area, as Michael mentioned, but I'm really referring to earlier bugs, ones that were present in released versions of GDB. I fixed one or two bugs related to this; I know my patch from 2003-05-02 was one of them, and there might have been another one as well. I don't have direct evidence as to how old the problem is, but it's not clear to me that this ever worked: it seems like it would have been present in the earliest versions of those files in the public CVS tree. The "minimal" comment is just there to not encourage people to get their hopes up that Java debugging works well in GDB: my impression is that it doesn't. Anyways, that's what I meant. As to what the NEWS file should say, well... I'm not sure that referring to Bug 1322 is actually useful, because it only had that particular manifestation for a couple of months, and in particular no release of GDB had that bug. You could make my original statement a little more specific by saying "A long-standing bug causing GDB to seg fault when loading a dynamic library while debugging a Java program has been fixed." That doesn't read too well, though. David Carlton carlton@kealia.com