Re: Final separate debug info patch

[Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>]

On 19 Nov 2002, Jim Blandy wrote:

> 
> It looks like the stripping process may break some executables.  If $D
> is the top directory of a current GDB source tree, try this:
> 
> $ g++ --version
> g++ (GCC) 3.3 20020820 (experimental)
> Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> $ g++ -g $D/gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/try_catch.cc -o try_catch
> $ ./try_catch
> $ /home/jimb/elfutils/bin/strip -f try_catch.separate-debug try_catch
> $ ./try_catch
> Segmentation fault
> $ 

This doesn't happen for me with gdb from cvs HEAD and gcc (GCC) 3.2 
20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7). Does it happen if you just run strip 
without the -f flag? It might well be a bug in the new strip command.

> So the effect is to:
> - run all the tests once with separate debug info, and then
> - run all the tests again with the normal debug info arrangement.
> 
> This makes it easy to see if the patch has any effect on the tests.

Thats cool.

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