Debug builds

[Steven Schlansker]

On Oct 7, 2013, at 8:30 AM, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>    Where did the old debug builds of rt.jar go (meaning, rt.jar with full debug symbols, even for local variables)? I scanned the mailing list for a related discussion but couldn't find anything. It looks like somewhere down the line a decision was made to remove these builds, but it's not clear why that was. Also, out of curiosity, what is the overhead of the full debug symbols (versus what we ship now)? Couldn't we ship a full-debug rt.jar with the JDK and ship the smaller rt.jar with the JRE?

+1 on shipping debug builds with the JDK, that would be very helpful for those of us who are stupid^Wcurious enough to step-debug into JDK classes.