[Lldb-commits] [lldb] r185366 - Split symbol support for ELF and Linux.

[Malea, Daniel]

Ah, I see; thanks for the explanation.

On 2013-07-02 11:25 AM, "Ed Maste" <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

>On 2 July 2013 11:18, Malea, Daniel <daniel.malea at intel.com> wrote:
>> What's UUID used for? Is it just used by LLDB to determine when an
>> executable has changed, or does it have other implications? If it's just
>> for detecting changed executables, is there any reason to not just
>>compute
>> an MD5 sum of the binary (in the case UUID is missing) instead?
>
>For the standalone debug files the GNU spec includes a crc32 of the
>main binary's contents, used to make sure the two files match.  I
>don't know of all of the UUID use cases within lldb, but it looks like
>Michael's patch uses the first four bytes of the UUID to store this
>crc.
>
>In my case the crc is being calculated for the main binary, but I
>don't have one for the standalone debug file.