Robin Green writes: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:01:59 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > > I'm working on packaging plplot for Fedora Extras. It has a Java > > interface that appears to work fine on x86 but not on ppc. Basically > > the Java stuff is just a JNI wrapper to the C library. > > > > Is there any way to run the java byte-code/JVM under a debugger? My > > first attempt to debug was to compile the program to native code and run > > under gdb as mentioned on the gcj website, but the native code appears > > to run fine. > > It's tricky - but possible - to debug interpreted bytecode. JDWP > protocol support is being worked on, but it's not ready yet. > > Is plplot multithreaded? I've just discovered a thread-safety bug > in the gij interpreter which has lain unfixed for several years: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23367 > > I'm told that this bug only affects the interpreter. Can you please tell us how this should be changed? Not necessarily a patch, but an outline of one. Andrew.
