status of ecj branch

Wed Jun 21 13:21:00 GMT 2006

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:20:48PM +0400, Artem Gr wrote:
> >Per> I suggest teaching ecj to emit SourceDebugExtension, as defined in
> >Per> JSR-45. Eclipse may already support JSR-45.
> >
> >Unfortunately it doesn't seem to... at least a quick grep for
> >"SourceDebugExtension" shows nothing.
>>> It does. I use the Nice compiler, which generates JSR-45 debugging info, 
> and Eclipse does use it successfully to point the Java Debugger to 
> appropriate Nice source file. JSR-45 support was much improved with the 
> last release of Eclipse.
> BTW, JSwat (http://www.bluemarsh.com/java/jswat/) also fully supports 
> JSR-45.
> P.S. We had problems with running some of the Nice-compiled classes, 
> when JSR-45 info was bigger than 32K - the Sun Java uses a fixed buffer 
> to process the JSR-45, and rejects classes where this info is too large. 
> The problem was solved by optimizing the debugging info to contain less 
> space.

I thikn Tom meant the other way around. He meant the Eclipse compiler
not generating SourceDebugExtension attributes and not the Eclipse
debugger not using them.
Cheers,
Michael
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