Debugging ANSI tests

[Mark Evenson]

On 2/4/16 09:30, Alessio Stalla wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> in my local copy of ABCL I broke some ANSI tests related to packages and
> that's not good. I'm lazy so I'm asking here: does someone have a ready
> recipe to debug the ANSI tests, in particular to place breakpoints inside
> ABCL's Java code while it is executing the tests? In the minute or so I
> spent thinking about it before getting lazy, I couldn't figure out how to
> pass the jdwp incantation to the JVM launched by Ant when testing.


As for setting a breakpoint in the source automatically, I think that
would be trés cool, but have no practical suggestions.  I would be very
interested in sketching up an abstraction for this to start figuring out
how do this.

As for invoking JVM with JDWP messages, I am not exactly sure either,
but the [`abcl.build.debug.jpda` ant target][1] shows how to do the
simpler task of forking a JVM configured to communicate to a JPDA client
which I think is the first step in getting to JDWP.

[1]:  http://abcl.org/trac/browser/trunk/abcl/build.xml#L590

Interested in hearing further progress from your side.


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