debugedit 5.3 released

Mark Wielaard mark@klomp.org
Tue Mar 10 12:23:18 GMT 2026


DEBUGEDIT 5.3 - https://sourceware.org/debugedit

A new release of debugedit is available at
https://sourceware.org/pub/debugedit/5.3/

Signing key can be found at
https://www.klomp.org/mark/gnupg-pub.txt

* NEW *

- debugedit-classify-ar is a new helper that checks if an ar
  file has to be processed
- find-debuginfo has a new -O/--output-dir switch
- find-debuginfo now uses 64k buffers with dd to speed up ar
  file processing
- debugedit now updates relocation addend and/or symbol values
  to support RISC-V ET_REL files
- find-debuginfo added --check-elf[-strict] to invoke eu-elflint
- debugedit now supports files with more than 65280 ELF sections
- make check now needs a C++ compiler

* GIT SHORTLOG *

Jelle van der Waa (1):
  README: update release URL

Mark Wielaard (10):
  find-debuginfo.at: Make sure foo, bar and baz have build-ids
  configure.ac: Check for cpio, eu-strip, xz and gdb-add-index
  Add debugedit-classify-ar and use it before running do_ar_file
  Fix debugedit-classify-ar ELF member (no debug) test on opensuse
  Add configure check for gdb-add-index vs dwz
  find-debuginfo: Use 64k buffers to extract ar members with dd
  debugedit: Update relocation addend or symbol value for debug strings
  find-debuginfo: Add --check-elf[-strict] to invoke eu-elflint
  debugedit: Support files with more than 65280 ELF sections
  configure: Set version to 5.3

Michal Domonkos (3):
  find-debuginfo: Refactor output directory
  find-debuginfo: Add test for output files presence
  find-debuginfo: Add -O/--output-dir switch

Michał Górny (1):
  tests/debugedit.at: Replace 'type -p' bashism
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