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Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:07:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RFA: handle "MiniDebuginfo" section
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To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
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> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:33:27 -0700
> 
> Fedora recently approved and committed the "MiniDebuginfo" feature:
> 
>     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MiniDebugInfo
> 
> Essentially this is a way to ship some extra symbols, compressed in a
> special section in an executable or library, so that backtracing can
> work "well enough" without requiring full debuginfo.
> 
> This patch adds support for this feature to gdb.  I think the
> implementation is pretty straightforward.  If you want to enable it, you
> will need the LZMA library:
> 
>     http://tukaani.org/lzma/
> 
> Built and regtested on x86-64 Fedora 16.
> 
> At least a doc review is required.

The doc parts are OK.  Thanks.