Line numbers in stack traces [was: GCJ application runs not too bad with shared libs, but crasheswith] static libs - seems to be in _Jv_MonitorEnter

Thu Nov 28 14:19:00 GMT 2002

In an ideal world, where we all have infinite time...
Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
> * works without debugging info,

Right, this would be the deciding factor: debug info is used if
available; otherwise, use reflection data
> * doesn't require additional processes to be created,
> * removes a dependency on external tools that may not be present and
> occasionally don't do what we want.

This just means that we have to reimplement addr2line or convince the
FSF to LGPL it so it can be included in libgcj.
> the right thing to do is to make thr choice configurable or
> have some time of runtime auto-detection.

I had that working at one point (runtime auto-detection); it's not too
hard.
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