Request for approval: Allow Java's ELF symtab reader to use separate debuginfo files

[Kelly O'Hair]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 12/09/2009 03:36 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> This is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541548
>> The symptom is that jmap doesn't work because target libraries are stripped.
>> The fix is to allow the symtab reader to use the separate debuginfo files
>> that are available for all (AFAIK) GNU/Linux distributions.
> 
> This is now also https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100126
> 
> Webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/100126-hotspot-webrev/
> 
> I have now checked several Linux distros, old and new, and although
> they keep their debuginfo files in different places, this patch works
> on all of them.
> 
> Is this OK?  And, if so, which repos should I push the patch to?

I think you should send email to hotspot-runtime-dev at openjdk.java.net
and serviceability-dev at openjdk.java.net, asking how to integrate this change.

You can consider me a reviewer, and I'll attest that the changes make it
through JPRT.  Not exactly sure how they want to handle this.

-kto

> 
> Thanks.
> Andrew.