Hi Eugene --
Please work with Tony Tye (cc'ed), the champion on this issue, to draft
a more complete proposal. Much of the description on the Github
reference for SourceLink is about the implementation in a PDB file and
less about the what information is contained and how it is used.
On 5/4/22 18:54, Eugene Rozenfeld via Dwarf-Discuss wrote:
Hello,
I work on the Linux tools team at Microsoft and I'd like to comment on the
issue https://dwarfstd.org/ShowIssue.php?issue=181223.1 that proposes to add
info similar to SourceLink to the DWARF format.
We are interested in pushing this forward both as a developer experience
improvement and as a step in improving secure supply chain guarantees. It's
important to be able to figure out where the sources come from if we want to
check the binary integrity.
The issue discusses two approaches: one involves augmenting the DWARF format
and the other one relies on buildid's and debuginfod servers. We believe the
approach whereby an arbitrary URL for source retrieval (e.g., github, VSTS,
etc.) can be specified offers greater applicability and flexibility over
relying on buildid and debuginfod servers. For instance, it can accommodate
scenarios where storing debuginfo along with sources on a debuginfod server may
not always be feasible.
The issue discusses two approaches to modifying the DWARF format: one is
augmenting the existing file table to allow the specification of a URL (the
proposed resolution) and the other one is a per CU URL table that would allow
the equivalent of SourceLink wildcards. The tradeoff is simplicity vs.
potential DWARF file size saving if many source files are involved in the
compilation. We are ok with either resolution. The important thing is a
standard way to encode the source file information so that the producers and
consumers agree.
Thank you,
Eugene
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