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Re: java crash from tom tromey
- From: David Carlton <carlton at kealia dot com>
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, tromey at redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 10:00:28 -0700
- Subject: Re: java crash from tom tromey
- References: <200308061650.h76Gooib012449@duracef.shout.net>
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:50:50 -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net> said:
> Can someone teach me about anonymous objfiles?
> What are they for?
I believe the Java dynamic class objfile is the only anonymous objfile
we have. It's used as a place to store debug information that isn't
associated to any actual physical file. Probably jv-lang.c's use of
it is a hack; having said that, our choices are, basically, either to
give up on Java debugging or to continue to deal with this hack.
I'm very glad that Tom has provided a reproducible test case for this;
I would suggest checking it in to our test suite ASAP. My only qualm
with it is that I can't compile the test case myself, because my
installed GCJ (whatever came with Red Hat 8.0) doesn't know about
Arc2D. Tom: is there some RPM that I can download to fix that (or I
could just recompile GCJ myself), or (better) is it possible to modify
the test case to use a more widely-available package?
David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com