Re: gdb with gcj

[Vladimir Leven <vladimirl at wrx-ca dot com>]

After the last "step" command in the listing below, the debugger waits for a long 
time and eventually just executes the rest of the program without stoppping anywhere
else along the way. Is there something I should be doing to get it to go to the next
line of Java code?

> Vladimir Leven writes:
> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: /home/levinv/dev/GcjDebugTest/a.out
> > [New Thread 16384 (LWP 2154)]
> > [New Thread 32769 (LWP 2155)]
> > [New Thread 16386 (LWP 2156)]
> > [Switching to Thread 16384 (LWP 2154)]
> > 
> > Breakpoint 1, test.main(java.lang.String[]) (args=@1003bfe8) at test.java:3
> > 3               test runme = new test();
> > Current language:  auto; currently java
> > (gdb) step
< > 0x30024f60 in __cache_line_size () from /lib/ld.so.1
> > [As you can see, I cannot even step through the program without it 
> > leaving Java mode. On Friday I was able to do that (not sure why), but 
> > no luck today. ]
>
> You're stepping into the shared library loader to fixup a PLT entry
> There's nothing weird or unexpected about this.
>
> When you leave the shared library loader, you should get back to the
> main context.
>
> Andrew.