[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: debugging rt.jar

["Martin Holmes" <martincanbe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again,
            it seems the problem is the version of Eclipse I was using. 
Infact I tried Eclipse M6 and M7 and both gave the same error. However when 
I downloaded the Eclipse release build 3.02 which I believe has no Java 5.0 
support and used jdk1.4 everything worked fine. I even recompiled with full 
debug attributes and that gave me all the deug information I could possibly 
dream of :)

I am now wondering if this a known bug in the Eclpise 3.1 milestone builds. 
Hmm how do I find out..... Perhaps I should report it!

Thanks again


"Philippe Ombredanne" <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> "Martin Holmes" <martincanbe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I have read that by default Sun does not compile rt.jat with debug
>> infomation due to increased download size.
> I do not know what kind of magic Eclipse is doing behind the scene, but I
> never had a problem there, and have always been able to step through JRE
> code nicely.
> AFAIK the rt.jar that is under the JDK has been compiled in debug and is
> about 4MB bigger than the rt.jar in the public JRE.
> Are you sure that Eclipse runs under the JDK as opposed to the public JRE
> that comes with it?
> And try to start eclipse with a specific JDK:
> eclipse.exe -vm c:\j2sdk1.4.2_08\bin\javaw.exe  (assuming you have the
> 1.4.2_08 JDK installed at that location...)
>
>