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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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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