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diff --git a/web/jit-debug b/web/jit-debug
index 0c98f3944d1..66b4411ff07 100644
--- a/web/jit-debug
+++ b/web/jit-debug
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 * Debugging information
 
-	Compile your programs using the `-g' flag in MCS, that will generate a file
-	with the extension .dbg containing the dwarf symbols for your executable.
+	Compile your programs using the `-g' flag in MCS, that will all a special
+	resource containing debugging information to your executable.
 
 	To get stack traces with line number information, you need to run your 
 	program like this:
@@ -13,6 +13,42 @@
 	Notice that the program will need to be compiled with the -g
 	flag and that running with --debug will slow down the execution.
 
+* Debugging with GDB
+
+	If you use GDB to debug your mono process, you can use the function
+	mono_print_method_from_ip(void *address) to obtain the name of a method
+	given an address.
+
+	For example:
+
+	<pre>
+(gdb) where
+#0  ves_icall_System_String_GetHashCode (me=0x80795d0) at string-icalls.c:861
+#1  0x0817f490 in ?? ()
+#2  0x0817f42a in ?? ()
+#3  0x0817f266 in ?? ()
+#4  0x0817f1a5 in ?? ()
+</pre>
+
+	You can now use:
+
+<pre>
+(gdb) p mono_print_method_from_ip (0x0817f490)
+IP 0x817f490 at offset 0x28 of method (wrapper managed-to-native) System.String:GetHashCode () (0x817f468 0x817f4a4)
+$1 = void
+(gdb) p mono_print_method_from_ip (0x0817f42a)
+IP 0x817f42a at offset 0x52 of method System.Collections.Hashtable:GetHash (object) (0x817f3d8 0x817f43b)
+$2 = void
+</pre>
+
+	Mono support libraries use a couple of signals internally that
+	confuse gdb, you might want to add this to your .gdbinit file:
+
+<pre>
+	handle SIGPWR nostop noprint 
+	handle SIGXCPU nostop noprint 
+</pre>
+
 * Mono Debugger 
 
 	The Mono debugger is written in C# and can debug both managed
@@ -24,13 +60,14 @@
 	href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2003-January/011415.html">post</a>. 
 	
 	The debugger contains both Gtk# and command line interfaces.
-	The debugging file format used in Dwarf (its already supported
+	The debugging file format used in Dwarf (it's already supported
 	by our class libraries and the Mono C# compiler; To debug C
 	applications, you need a recent GCC, or to pass the -gdwarf-2
 	flag to gcc).
 
-	The debugger is available now, you can get it from <a
-	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~martin/debugger/mono-debugger-0.2.0.tar.gz">here</a>
+	You can download the releases from <a
+	href="http://primates.ximian.com/~martin/debugger/">Martin Baulig's
+	home page.</a>
 
 
 
@@ -38,4 +75,4 @@
 	
 	
 
-	
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+