gdb & java

[Alexandre Petit-Bianco]

Jeff Sturm writes:

> examining instance variables

I think Tom found out that a leading `$' in a symbol name could
confuse gdb in certain situation. I think there's a patch in order for
gdb not to choke on it anymore, but we also decided that `$finit$'
shouldn't be used anymore. I posted a patch recently to let gcj
generate `finit$' and still recognize `$finit$' in legacy code. It's a
runtime and compiler patch combination:

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/java-discuss/2000-08/msg00031.html
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-08/msg00664.html

I hope this helps.

./A