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On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:30 +0100, Bruno wrote: |
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> What's the advantage of splitting out the debug info to some extra location |
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> instead of leaving it in the original binary (maybe smaller foot-print in |
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> memory while the debugging info is not used), |
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Yes exactly a stripped binary will occupy less space in RAM. |
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> and what tools are compatible |
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> with this external debug info? |
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gdb being the main one. |
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With tools like valgrind you can simply do. |
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug valgrind --foo |
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ELF is cool like that. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo Linux |
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