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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] mkelf32: Correct sh_link

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] mkelf32: Correct sh_link
From: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 19:20:31 +0000
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:14:47PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:

> >> What we have now works and produces a reasonably compressed symbol table. I
> >> don't see any value in changing it.
> > 
> > It seems like it would simplify things. And it would certainly help us
> > as we want to ship the binary with (compressed) debug info, which is
> > tricky right now due to this unusual behaviour...
> 
> You can ship xen-syms if users want extra debug info (e.g., attach a gdb
> client).

Indeed, and that's what we're doing currently. But this is problematic
as it's very easy for other files to get lost, not be handed over etc.
and working backwards to the right version is very rarely feasible...
Thus we'd like to have a single binary (or more importantly dump!) that
has everything in place.

regards,
john

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