On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:39:24 +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
On 12/09/2010 07:46 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> I have trouble following what you're saying here. At what point does
> one need to "read the whole debuginfo file"?
I'm referring to this:
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/crash-catcher/2010-September/000965.html
GDB on client side would need something like readonly NFS-like service to load
the .debug files byte-wise. And this NFS-like service network protocol must
be signed by Fedora project like the current rpms are.
Then the fast operation of GDB on the client depends on these known issues:
*
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GdbIndex which is now present in F14
updated packages (but it still was not present in F14 GA packages).
* Recheck THe .debug files reading via .gdb_index is really optimal for the
network protocol.
* Fixing GDB to not ever touch .debug files for libraries not going to be
used in the specific backtrace at all.
Regards,
Jan