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[Andrew Haley]

On 11/13/2012 10:23 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> Sometimes things aren't ideal for one group in favor of another.
> 
> WHAT group is actually in favor of MiniDebugInfo? It has one single person 
> as the feature owner. ABRT developers consider it useless. Who actually 
> wants it? And are you sure those who think they want it realize what it 
> really means?
> 
> Let's take a simple example:
> $ gdb --args sleep 10
> (gdb) r
> (press Ctrl-C)
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xb7fdc424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb7eb94f0 in __nanosleep_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2  0x0804b232 in ?? ()
> #3  0x08048f99 in ?? ()
> #4  0xb7e166b3 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #5  0x08049085 in ?? ()
> 
> What MiniDebugInfo will give you (not tested):
> #0  0xb7fdc424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb7eb94f0 in __nanosleep_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2  0x0804b232 in xnanosleep () from /usr/bin/sleep
> #3  0x08048f99 in main () from /usr/bin/sleep
> #4  0xb7e166b3 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #5  0x08049085 in ?? ()
> 
> With coreutils-debuginfo, glibc-debuginfo and glibc-debuginfo-common 
> installed:
> #0  0xb7fdc424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0xb7eb94f0 in __nanosleep_nocancel ()
>     at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:82
> #2  0x0804b232 in xnanosleep (seconds=10) at xnanosleep.c:111
> #3  0x08048f99 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfffef24) at sleep.c:147
> 
> Spot the difference…

I just did.  You seem to have proved the point of mini-debuginfo.

Andrew.