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From: Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default or not?)
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:55:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133031325.5422.317.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511261930.59418.bonbons67@internet.lu>

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:30 +0100, Bruno wrote:

[snip]

> What's the advantage of splitting out the debug info to some extra location 
> instead of leaving it in the original binary (maybe smaller foot-print in 
> memory while the debugging info is not used), 

Yes exactly a stripped binary will occupy less space in RAM.


> and what tools are compatible 
> with this external debug info?

gdb being the main one.

With tools like valgrind you can simply do.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug valgrind --foo

ELF is cool like that.


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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-26 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-26 17:50 [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult or not?) Ned Ludd
2005-11-26 18:30 ` Bruno
2005-11-26 18:55   ` Ned Ludd [this message]
2005-11-27  9:53     ` [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default " Kevin F. Quinn
2005-11-27 12:18       ` Ned Ludd
2005-11-26 19:15 ` [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult " Olivier Crête
2005-11-26 19:20 ` [gentoo-dev] " R Hill
2005-11-27 12:24   ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Split ELF Debug (default " Ned Ludd
2005-11-27 13:09     ` Ivan Yosifov
2005-11-27 13:32       ` Edward Catmur
2005-11-27 13:40       ` Ned Ludd
2005-11-27 15:22         ` Edward Catmur
2005-11-27 15:44           ` Ned Ludd
2005-11-27 16:55             ` Ned Ludd
2005-11-27 21:01               ` Ivan Yosifov
2005-11-27 22:24                 ` Ned Ludd
2005-11-28 11:00                 ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-11-27 18:03         ` Mark Loeser
2005-11-27 19:51           ` Olivier Crête
2005-11-26 19:22 ` [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult " Ivan Yosifov
2005-11-26 20:01 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-11-26 21:42 ` Petteri Räty
2005-11-27  0:48   ` Dan Meltzer
2005-11-27  0:53     ` Mart Raudsepp
2005-11-27 12:23   ` [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (default " Ned Ludd
2005-11-26 23:10 ` [gentoo-dev] Split ELF Debug (defult " Luca Barbato
2005-11-27 12:54   ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-27 14:39     ` Dan Meltzer
2005-11-27 14:49       ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-27 14:50       ` Ned Ludd
2005-11-27 15:31       ` Edward Catmur
2005-11-28  1:18     ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-11-28  4:21       ` Edward Catmur
2005-11-27 15:04 ` Tavis Ormandy
2005-11-27 15:30   ` Dan Meltzer
2005-11-28 11:14     ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-11-27 22:35 ` Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
2005-11-28 10:51 ` Paul de Vrieze

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