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. <http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo> -- David Smith [email protected] Red Hat http://www.redhat.com 256.217.0141 (direct) 256.837.0057 (fax) _______________________________________________ elfutils-devel mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/elfutils-devel
