linux x64: gtest libjvm.so without debug symbols?

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi Erik,

great, thank you!

So, for the gtest libjvm the binary would always contain internal debug
symbols and we would not generate debuginfo files, right?

Thomas


On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Filed https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171310 and working on it.
>
> /Erik
>
>
>
> On 2016-12-15 14:37, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> That is a mistake in JDK-8150736. My intention was to always leave debug
>> symbols in the gtest libjvm.so untouched.
>>
>> /Erik
>>
>> On 2016-12-15 14:13, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I may be missing something very obvious, but I am not able to debug the
>>> gtest-libjvm (the one gtestLauncher uses, from
>>> hotspot/variant-server/libjvm).
>>>
>>> I build with --with-native-debug-symbols=external
>>> --with-debug-level=slowdebug.
>>>
>>> In the build log I see that we preserve the debug information for the
>>> standard libjvm.so with objcopy, but we don't for the gtest variant,
>>> instead we strip the debug information.
>>>
>>> Was that intentional?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Thomas
>>>
>>
>>
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