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Re: [RFC][PATCH] Allow JIT unwinder provide symbol information
- From: Alexander Smundak <asmundak at google dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:39:58 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Allow JIT unwinder provide symbol information
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> It seems to me that what you want to do here is what Python
> frame filters were invented for. IOW, I think you should
> be able to write a frame filter that interacts with the Java
> JIT to expose the same info to the user your API extension
> is proposing.
The patch allows JIT readers to provide the symbol information to GDB.
I am not sure how this can be achieved with Python frame filters. IMHO
they have different purpose.