Bug#516516: Provide all debug symbols
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:21:44AM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hello Aurelien,
>
> Aurelien Jarno hat am Sun 22. Feb, 03:45 (+0100) geschrieben:
> > 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.
>
> Gdb can look in different directories for debugging informations. Can you
> provide two versions: the current and a full (fat) version? Then I could
> “set debug-file-directory /usr/lib/debug/fat” and get a slow and verbose
> gdb output. Is this possible? Do you think it's useful?
A few tests have shown that the loading time of symbols has decreased to
an acceptable level even on slow machines, so the debugging symbols
won't be stripped anymore in the next version (2.9-4).
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