Tools: Debugging Native and Java Code with WDB

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Tools for
Debugging
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gdb
Native + Java Support: Summary
• Powerful tool for problem diagnosis
• Debugging problems
– Correctness
– To answer question – What’s going on in the JVM?
– Hung processes
– Curious phenomena that occur during execution
• ENABLED: Fast remote diagnosis of problems
• Redirect output to a file
• gdb is another diagnostic tool that complements
– Xverbosegc
– Xeprof/HPjmeter