[fpc-devel] Debug Info proposal

[Peter Vreman]

> Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>
>> On 12 Jan 2008, at 16:07, Bogus³aw Brandys wrote:
>>
>>> Could we have debug info as separate file ? If this would be possible
>>> I could create release stripped EXE and yet be able to obtain
>>> unit/line of exception combining stacktrace numeric output with
>>> correct debug info file
>>
>> You can already do this: compile a "release executable" with debug info,
>> and then distribute a stripped copy of that executable. The addresses in
>> the stripped executable will match exactly with the addresses in the
>> unstripped one.
>>
>>
>> Jonas_______________________________________________
>
> Wow! Great!
>
> Could fpc devel team provide application with source code which could
> translate addresses from bare bone stacktrace generated from stripped
> executable into full stacktrace with unit/line info using bare bone
> stacktrace file and executable with debug info included ?
>
> Would be perfect situation to tidy join bare bone stacktrace and debug
> info to avoid combining stacktrace with incorrect debug executable.Maybe
> some magic number in stacktrace and debug info ?

If someone needs such an application he can create one himself. The existing lineinfo and lnfodwrf
units contains already routines to read debuginfo and convert an address to function, source and
line information.

Peter