Kris Jurka wrote:
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>> Well, it's not so much about debugging really. It's more the information
>> you can get once something is crashing. As I mentioned, the JVM prints a
>> stack trace that can be very useful. Much is gained if the user who
>> experiences a crash can provide the JVM dump file in a bug-report or
>> attach it to a mailing list posting.
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> Just to clarify, the java code is never built with -g (see
> src/java/Makefile.global). Is there any reason not to change this to
> always build with -g?
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I'm not referring to the Java code. The JVM extracts symbolic
information from the binary. If I'm not mistaking, that information is
not present when the binary is compiled without -g. If I'm wrong about
this, then we don't need debugging.
- thomas