Gregory Shimansky wrote: > Mark Hindess wrote: >> Gregory, why did you want it to be optional? Do you use this option? > > The reason is quite simple. When VM crashes it is much easier to debug > it right at the spot of the crash. On Windows it is done with Just In > Time debugging facility, on Linux core dump is useful. DRLVM with can > and does detect the condition when crash happens inside of VM and when > it is ran with -XDassert_dialog=true (default) does not try to do > anything intelligent like printing stack. This allows debugging at the > spot of the crash. > > When launcher installs its own handler it catches the crash. Even though > it can print registers and maybe some stack symbols, it is not as good > as using full fledged debugger to analyze the problem.
I think Mark meant, if it is optional when would you want to have the signal hander installed by the launcher? Regards, Tim
