On 05/07/2012 01:51 PM, Douglas, William wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to get gbd backtraces to give function names without having
a package's debuginfo installed. Would elfutils take a patch allowing
strip to take an option for keeping the minimal amount of information
needed to do this?
I'm still trying to figure out how to do this exactly but right now I
think I would be keeping SHT_SYMTAB and SHT_DYNSYM function symbols
but I haven't looked at this code before and I'm still trying to
figure out how it all comes together. Any advice would be appreciated
if you'd be okay with this functionality in elfutils.
William,
I can't answer for the elfutils library itself, but you might want to
look at/help out with a proposed new F18 feature called 'MiniDebugInfo',
which sounds similar to what you want to do.
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