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Re: Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40
Howdy Harold, Christopher:
At 06:06 PM 1/15/2004 -0500, you wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:02:24PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>With that being said, I'll address the issue of symbol information:
>1) If I include symbol information and there are no crashes, then people
>will complain (don't argue with me, they *will* complain) about the size
>of the download being X KB larger than it had to be.
Newer versions of binutils allow you to split symbol information into a
separate file which gdb understands. I've been meaning to release a
version of gdb and binutils which can do this for a while and will probably
do this as soon as I'm out from under my current mountain of work.
Another option is to generate a link map file when you do the final
compile. It's just a text file of 4KB or so and you can manually reference
the failing address from a stackdump into a routine name. For my commercial
software I've found this is often enough to figure out what's wrong
without worrying about distributing symbol files or the extra size
associated with them.
-Earle F. Philhower, III
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