Mono Runtime Debugging

We now have better integration of GDB with Mono. Information on how to use this is in Debugging with GDB in XDEBUG mode in our wiki.

This will be useful if you are debugging the Mono runtime, or debugging Mono embedded into an application new versions of Mono (for example debugging Moonlight).

This will give you symbols for managed code in stack traces, for example the bold text in this example are the managed frames. These would previously just be rendered as "????????" by gdb.

(gdb) xdb
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000000040cd707e in Tests:pass_floats_doubles (a=100, b=101, c=102, d=103, e=104, f=105, g=106)
#1  0x0000000040cd6fd8 in Tests:test_721_sparc_float_argument_passing ()
#2  0x0000000040a6228a in (wrapper runtime-invoke) Tests:runtime_invoke_int (param0=0x0, param1=0x7fc05e5b0e00,
    param2=0x0, param3=0x40cd6f80)
#3  0x00000000004219f7 in mono_jit_runtime_invoke (method=0x9daa70, obj=0x0, params=0x0, exc=0x0) at mini.c:4253
#4  0x00000000005c1d2c in mono_runtime_invoke (method=0x9daa70, obj=0x0, params=0x0, exc=0x0) at object.c:2399
#5  0x00000000005c39d7 in mono_runtime_invoke_array (method=0x9daa70, obj=0x0, params=0x0, exc=0x0) at object.c:3488
#6  0x00000000005cdc31 in ves_icall_InternalInvoke (method=0x7fc05c371be0, this=0x0, params=0x0, exc=0x7fff66729368)
    at icall.c:3038
#7  0x0000000040cd6bee in (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoMethod:InternalInvoke (
    this=0x7fc05c371be0, param0=0x0, param1=0x0, param2=0x7fff66729368)
#8  0x0000000040cd690c in System.Reflection.MonoMethod:Invoke (this=0x7fc05c371be0, obj=0x0, invokeAttr=0x0,
    binder=0x0, parameters=0x0, culture=0x0)
#9  0x0000000040cd683b in System.Reflection.MethodBase:Invoke (this=0x7fc05c371be0, obj=0x0, parameters=0x0)
#10 0x0000000040a6275c in TestDriver:RunTests (type=0x7fc05e5b6dc8, args=0x0)
#11 0x0000000040a62380 in TestDriver:RunTests (type=0x7fc05e5b6dc8)
#12 0x0000000040a62354 in Tests:Main ()
#13 0x0000000040a6228a in (wrapper runtime-invoke) Tests:runtime_invoke_int (param0=0x0, param1=0x7fc05e5b0e00,
    param2=0x0, param3=0x40a62340)
#14 0x00000000004219f7 in mono_jit_runtime_invoke (method=0x9576f0, obj=0x0, params=0x7fff66729600, exc=0x0)
    at mini.c:4253
	

For people running the archer branch of gdb, there is a "mono mode" implemented in python for gdb, which offers additional features: http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewvc/trunk/mono/data/gdb/