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Re: infinity notes
- From: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at acm dot org>
- To: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>, infinity at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at systemhalted dot org>, roland at hack dot frob dot com
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 07:55:22 -0500
- Subject: Re: infinity notes
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Gary,
I also appreciate that there are other users who would be unhappy
if they had to install debuginfo where they didn't before. I'm
trying to balance everyone's needs with this.
Yeah, I can see that's a challenge.
into separated debuginfo. Its also possible to imagine that different
notes could go in different places in the same build, so you could
have very debugger-specific notes like pretty-printer accessors in
debuginfo, and more general purpose notes like the thread debug ones
unstripped.
That flexibility is good. It might be wise to document it early on with
an example design at least -- so that those who add additional
functionality don't blindly add new NOTES segments.
The "unknown note #5" you saw at Cauldron will go away once tools
are updated to recognise the notes. I have patches ready to go for
binutils, and I'll likely update elfutils too once everything's
more fixed.
Right. My point was that someone without an updated tool might be more
informed. (Hey, if you have users who don't want debug info, I'll have
ones that have old tools!)
Anyway, it seems like you're thinking about the issue, which is great!
nathan
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Nathan Sidwell