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Re: Trouble debugging a Java Virtual Machine on Linux
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Johan Walles <johan dot walles at appeal dot se>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:21:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: Trouble debugging a Java Virtual Machine on Linux
- References: <3C500AAC.5030709@appeal.se>
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?
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer