How to debug hotspot integrated with java codes

Xiaobin Lu Xiaobin.Lu at Sun.COM
Fri Dec 12 15:15:39 PST 2008


Refer to 
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/overview/topics/debug_index.html to 
find more details on how to use Sun Studio which is available on Linux 
to debug mixed Java and native code.

-Xiaobin

Colin(Du Li) wrote:
> Hi, guys.
>
> Now I'm debugging Hotspot. I'm using GDB. When I debug the source codes
> written in  c++, it's fine. But if the VM has launched, I cannot trace into
> the source codes written in java. e.g. When I find Hotspot cannot load some
> class, and I wanna step into the class java.lang.ClassLoader ,  I don't know
> how to trace it. Apparently, I cannot do that with GDB. 
> Can you guys give me some suggestion for debug in this situation?
> I spend several days on this problem, and really need  some help on the
> debug things.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!!
>
>
>
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