[news.eclipse.technology.ldt] Re: JSR 45 and support for non-Java class

[Per Bothner <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Darin Wright wrote:
> The Java debugger provides API for creating breakpoints in a particular 
> stratum.
>
> @see JavaDebugModel.createStratumBreakpoint(..) and 
> IJavaStratumLineBreakpoint.

Is there a way to view/step bytecode?  It occurred to be that the
"stratum" concept can be extended for that.  I.e. with JSP you'd have
*three* strata:
> JSP (default)
> Java
> bytecode
If you select the bytecode stratum, you'd get a disasembled view
of the bytecode.  You can set breakpoints on individual instructions,
single-step individual instructions, etc.

This would be great not only for us compiler developers,
but also as a pedagogical tool to teach people bytecode.
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