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Re: GDB and the OpenJDK JVM
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...
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Thanks,
Daniel