Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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Non-java developers unite!

Someone sent around a great headline at [...]

November 16th, 2005 | Category: Developer Tools | Leave a comment

Importing debug information into dbx

I’m sure I wrote this up somewhere before, but now I can’t find it. Just in case you guys (my two faithful readers) haven’t seen this trick yet. If you are stuck with a core file that doesn’t have debug information, you can “import” debugging information using the “loadobject -load” command. It’s especially useful for C++ [...]

November 14th, 2005 | Category: dbx | Leave a comment

Linux Compilers require a glibc fix (headers)

There is a glibc bug that makes our new C Compiler on Linux not work. The symptom looks like this:

> “helloworld.c”, line 8: internal compiler error: DBGGEN ERROR:
> FILE=”../src/dbg_libdwarf.c”, LINE=46, Could not load dwarf library:
> libdwarf.so : libdwarf.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory [DBG_GEN 5.0.8]
> cc: acomp failed for helloworld.c

The [...]

November 11th, 2005 | Category: Compilers | Leave a comment