Tools: Debugging Native and Java Code with WDB

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Tools for

Debugging

gdb

Starting Java from gdb: Modify wrap

The second method to invoke the debugger requires you to modify:

/opt/java1.3/bin/.java_wrapper

At the end of the file you have the following commands to start Java:

# Run.

if [ -x "$prog" ]

then

# invoke the VM $args contains arguments which begin with "-", $* contains …

exec $DEBUG_PROG "$prog" "${options[@]}" "$@"

else

echo >&2 "$progname was not found in ${prog}"

exit 1