[fpc-devel] Debug Info proposal

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sun, 13 Jan 2008, schreef Joost van der Sluis:

> Op zaterdag 12-01-2008 om 20:11 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Bogus?aw
> Brandys:
>> Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 ?
>
> Why would we? This is exactly what strip does! It strips out the
> debug-info to a seperate file. This is wat the -debug package is when
> you create a .rpm. That -debug package stores the debuginfo. If you
> install the -debug package, you can use gdb to debug your application.
> If you don't install it, you can't.

To be honest, if you would receive a runtime error + stack backtrace 
output from a user, converting it back to a source line back trace isn't 
that easy currently. Sure, you can load the debuginfo executable in gdb, 
then look up the lines one by one, but it would be a time consuming 
process.

Daniël