Re: Function symbol retention after stripping

[David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com>]

On 05/07/2012 01:51 PM, Douglas, William wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to get gbd backtraces to give function names without having
> a package's debuginfo installed. Would elfutils take a patch allowing
> strip to take an option for keeping the minimal amount of information
> needed to do this?
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out how to do this exactly but right now I
> think I would be keeping SHT_SYMTAB and SHT_DYNSYM function symbols
> but I haven't looked at this code before and I'm still trying to
> figure out how it all comes together. Any advice would be appreciated
> if you'd be okay with this functionality in elfutils.


William,

I can't answer for the elfutils library itself, but you might want to
look at/help out with a proposed new F18 feature called 'MiniDebugInfo',
which sounds similar to what you want to do.

<http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel>
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo>

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