[fpc-devel] Debug Info proposal

[Joost van der Sluis]

Op zondag 13-01-2008 om 17:48 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef 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.

No, that won't work. The user has to install the debuginfo, and then run
the executable. That's at least how Fedora works and Gnome's bug-buddy. 

Joost