GCJ Thread Dump

Wed Feb 9 23:37:00 GMT 2005

Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>>> > Is there any way to get a thread dump from a running GCJ 
>> application in the > same way you can send a kill -3 signal to the 
>> Sun JVM?
>> No, there isn't, and it would be extremely hard to do. Whan we have a
>> problem like this, we attach gdb to the process.
>> This not my alley, as I don't know what the outcome of kill -3 does to 
> Sun's JVM. However, can you perchance use the dump mechanism that David 
> Daney mentions in the thread 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2005-02/msg00037.html:
>> "I have code that does a heap dump that I would be good to put in the 
> interface as well. Given the heap dump and a post processing program we 
> generate things like the number and type of each reachable object as 
> well as the value of each String."
>
Unfortunately I just dump the heap, not the stacks. Once you start 
trying to generate stack traces from stack dumps, you have to have some 
target specific code.
You would have to do something similar to the GC's stop-the-world and 
then dump out the stacks and current stack pointers for each thread. 
You would also want to obtain the owners of all locks held. It makes my 
head hurt just to think about it.
David Daney.