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Re: RFA: handle "MiniDebuginfo" section
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 20:07:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: RFA: handle "MiniDebuginfo" section
- References: <87wqxuel5k.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:33:27 -0700
>
> Fedora recently approved and committed the "MiniDebuginfo" feature:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo
>
> Essentially this is a way to ship some extra symbols, compressed in a
> special section in an executable or library, so that backtracing can
> work "well enough" without requiring full debuginfo.
>
> This patch adds support for this feature to gdb. I think the
> implementation is pretty straightforward. If you want to enable it, you
> will need the LZMA library:
>
> http://tukaani.org/lzma/
>
> Built and regtested on x86-64 Fedora 16.
>
> At least a doc review is required.
The doc parts are OK. Thanks.