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Re: RFA: handle "MiniDebuginfo" section
- From: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:44:30 +0100
- Subject: Re: RFA: handle "MiniDebuginfo" section
- References: <87wqxuel5k.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>
On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:33:27 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Fedora recently approved and committed the "MiniDebuginfo" feature:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo
Just giving a feedback I have never agreed with this feature, there were many
mails by me (and others) with subject /minidebuginfo/i:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-May/thread.html
And some Fedora developers still disagree with this (accepted now) feature.
In summary the countercase is that build-id (already present in Fedora)
supersedes this "large" .gnu_debugdata data pack. But people and their use
cases differ a lot and sometimes this or that feature fits better.
Regards,
Jan