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Re: Binary Compatibility: debug info for compiled Java programs


Andrew Cagney writes:
> > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 05:13, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > > >>> So, I'm still unsure about how to proceed. It looks like Bryce's
> >>> suggestion is preferable on efficiency grounds, although it might be
> >>> possible to generate DWARF cheaply while laying out classes.
> > > > Whatever we do, I'd like to see some solution that attempted to minimize
> > communication with the inferior process (for remote debugging
> > purposes).
> > As an issue, it isn't relevant to this discussion.


In either case, whatever we do, we must communicate with the target
system to extract structure info.

> Andrew asked me about the overhead of extracting data from the inferior. > I sketched out a number of already proposed changes changes, such as > having the inferior agressively supply memory, that would address the > problems you mention.

Well, kinda sorta. Anthony is thinking about targets on the end of a wire.

So am I.


Andrew



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