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class introspection not working in the debugger. [message #208578]

Fri, 25 January 2008 14:20

Eclipse User

I have an application which uses many classes from a third party
commercial library. I have code assist correctly prompting me for
available members and functions when coding but when debugging the
classes from the commercial libraries are displayed as addresses. I
cannot open them to see their contents (other classes etc.)

Is it the case that there is no information available about such objects
at runtime? Java objects, even those compiled without debug info, show
a little information. For that to work would the class being inspected
have to expose it's native members? (which of course no one would do)...

wcn

Re: class introspection not working in the debugger. [message #208597 is a reply to message #208578]

Fri, 25 January 2008 15:05

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: dmsubs.NOSPAM.consertum.com

If it is a commercial application, it is likely that ALL information will have
been stripped, leaving you just with the machine code. All you will have is the
class/method names, but even those will be "mangled" if they are C++ (google for
C++ name mangling if you want more info).

HTH
--
Derek

Wendell Nichols wrote:
> I have an application which uses many classes from a third party
> commercial library. I have code assist correctly prompting me for
> available members and functions when coding but when debugging the
> classes from the commercial libraries are displayed as addresses. I
> cannot open them to see their contents (other classes etc.)
>
> Is it the case that there is no information available about such objects
> at runtime? Java objects, even those compiled without debug info, show
> a little information. For that to work would the class being inspected
> have to expose it's native members? (which of course no one would do)...
>
> wcn

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