Proposed F18 feature: MiniDebugInfo

Jan Kratochvil jan.kratochvil at redhat.com
Mon May 7 15:25:29 UTC 2012


On Mon, 07 May 2012 16:34:27 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> For bug reporting, you don't need to upload core files, if all you want
> is to augment backtraces with symbol info and perhaps line info, then
> all you can do is just upload backtraces without symbol info/line info,
> supply the relevant build-ids for addresses seen in the backtrace and
> let some server with access to debuginfo packages finish that up.

This will lose a lot of info, any local variables, function parameters, even
inlined functions etc.


Thanks,
Jan


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