severity 516516 wishlist thanks On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 01:23:13AM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Package: libc6-dbg > Version: 2.9-0exp2 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > the debug package doesn't help anyhow when inspecting core dumps. It would > be much useful if the package would provide the symbols for local > variables and thelike to get the full backtrace with gdb. That's also > what other debug packages of libraries do.
The drawback of providing all symbols is that it makes gdb very slow to load all symbols, render it almost unusable. > Quoting the discussion on #513341: > > Daniel Jacobowitz hat am Thu 05. Feb, 14:03 (-0500) geschrieben: > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:12:37PM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > > But this doesn't work for core dumps. I would like to get more > > > informations, like local variables from core dumps. How can I get such > > > informations with the debugging library in /usr/lib/debug? > > > > Sorry, there's no way to do this with the current packages. > -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
