From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10022 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2012 15:44:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 10013 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Nov 2012 15:44:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:44:36 +0000 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qADFiZXx028571 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:44:35 -0500 Received: from host2.jankratochvil.net (ovpn-116-26.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.26]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qADFiVcg003755 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:44:34 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:44:00 -0000 From: Jan Kratochvil To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Tom Tromey Subject: Re: RFA: handle "MiniDebuginfo" section Message-ID: <20121113154430.GA10305@host2.jankratochvil.net> References: <87wqxuel5k.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wqxuel5k.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-11/txt/msg00318.txt.bz2 On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:33:27 +0100, Tom Tromey wrote: > Fedora recently approved and committed the "MiniDebuginfo" feature: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo Just giving a feedback I have never agreed with this feature, there were many mails by me (and others) with subject /minidebuginfo/i: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-May/thread.html And some Fedora developers still disagree with this (accepted now) feature. In summary the countercase is that build-id (already present in Fedora) supersedes this "large" .gnu_debugdata data pack. But people and their use cases differ a lot and sometimes this or that feature fits better. Regards, Jan