Binary Compatibility: debug info for compiled Java programs

[Andrew Cagney]

> 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