Re: [rvm-research] Debugging Jikes

[Michael B. <mik...@cs...>]

Hi Laurence,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I added some text about the debugger thread to 
the user guide: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/RVM/Debugging+the+RVM

In general, everyone's encouraged to contribute to the user guide 
(http://docs.codehaus.org/display/RVM/How+to+Help).  I'm not exactly sure 
who has permissions to give you permissions, but you can just e-mail the 
core list :)

Cheers,
Mike


On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Laurence Hellyer wrote:

>
> On 21 Aug 2009, at 23:49, Michael Bond wrote:
>>
>> (3) Finally, Jikes has an interactive debugger that you can invoke by
>> sending SIQUIT to Jikes while it's running:
>>
>> pkill -SIGQUIT JikesRVM
>>
>> In previous versions of Jikes, that stopped all threads and provided
>> an
>> interactive prompt, but currently it just dumps the state of the VM
>> and
>> continues immediately (that's a known issue:
>> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/RVM-570).
>>
>> Also, it appears that a baseline-only version of Jikes, i.e.,
>> prototype,
>> doesn't currently support the debugger.  It looks like that's
>> because the
>> TimerThread, which launches the debugger (among other things),
>> doesn't run
>> if the adaptive system isn't enabled.  I'll open a JIRA on that.  In
>> the
>> meantime I'd suggest using a configuration that includes the adaptive
>> system (AOS), e.g., prototype-opt or development or production.
>
> Hi,
>
> Mike wrote the above in response to a question about debugging and I
> found it interesting because I never knew about this feature - it
> doesn't seem to be documented in the User guide.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have suitable permissions to add something to
> the wiki so perhaps someone who can would be kind enough to add this?
>
> Thanks to Mike for pointing this out.
>
> Kind regards
> Laurence
>
> Laurence Hellyer
> Research Student
> Computing Laboratory
> University of Kent
>
> More info: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/rpg/lh243/
>
>
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