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[Bug releng/4262] New: debuginfo subsetting utility
- From: "fche at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 22 Mar 2007 18:08:26 -0000
- Subject: [Bug releng/4262] New: debuginfo subsetting utility
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
It is sometimes desirable to package debugging information that is a subset of
the original data. The subset would need to be just enough to run some
systemtap scripts. One may want to ship just a subset because the full
debuginfo would be proprietary, or just too darn big.
Here's one way to do it:
- let the interesting part of the application be defined by a collection of
systemtap scripts (and the tapsets they use)
- extend systemtap / elfutils to be able to mark all parts of the debugging
files actually used - at as low as a DIE granularity
- develop a tool to take such markings, and excise all unmarked parts of the
debuginfo. it may be simplest to zero-fill the unused parts, then compress the
resulting file.
- extent systemtap to look for such subsetted debuginfo files in another path,
using elfutils path settings already available
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Summary: debuginfo subsetting utility
Product: systemtap
Version: unspecified
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: releng
AssignedTo: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
ReportedBy: fche at redhat dot com
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4262
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