Tools: Debugging Native and Java Code with WDB

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Tools for
Debugging
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gdb
Introduction
• Gnu Debugger
• Official name is wdb – Wildebeest Debugger (www.hp.com/go/wdb)
• Wildebeest is another name for the Gnu - Connochaetes taurinus
• New version of gdb supports unwind of Java 1.3.1
• Interpreter frames
• Java run-time compiler compiled frames
• Adapters:
– i2c – interpreted to compiled
– c2i – compiled to interpreted
– Java entry frame
• Available at: pdlweb.cup.hp.com/jcs/jdebug