On 02/11/2015 11:27 PM, Jeremy Manson wrote: > First, gdb needed to be extended to support the ability to plug in a frame > unwinder. The process of submitting this to gdb (which has been ongoing > for quite a while) is finally starting to make reasonable progress. > > Next, we need a plugin for OpenJDK. We have a plugin written that calls > out to the serviceability agent. (It's written in Python, per gdb's > requirements).
Has the license issue already come up? OpenJDK is GPL version 2 only, GDB is GPL version 3 or later. Those two are not compatible. It's typically fine if such processes communicate which each others over a pipe, but direct linking within the same address space might not be okay. I don't know enough about the technology involved here to say if this is going to cause any real problems, but I want to avoid future disappointment. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
