[pypy-issue] [issue1204] gdb hooks for debugging PyPy

[Dave Malcolm]

Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> added the comment:

Motivation: although PyPy's generated C code may be perfect, as soon as you link 3rd-party code into the 
process (e.g. via extension modules, ctypes, or some other FFI), the process runs the risk of crashes 
induced by bugs in that 3rd party code.  Hence it's useful to have some way of debugging the process and 
figuring out e.g. what thread is doing what.  (For example: pointers getting freed by 3rd party code that 
shouldn't have freed them, refcounting bugs in extension modules, random pointer corruption, etc etc)

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