[LLVMdev] Reimplementing Darwin's dsymutil as an lld helper

Shankar Easwaran shankare at codeaurora.org
Fri Nov 7 10:07:23 PST 2014


Thanks for your reply, Fred.

It might work better, if its in a form of an API. So that the linker 
could call an API instead of running a tool ?

On 11/7/2014 11:53 AM, Frédéric Riss wrote:
>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Shankar Easwaran <shankare at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Fred,
>>
>> Could this tool be extended to read DWARF information in the final image and then pack it differently for other architectures as well ?
> I guess it could, depending on what you exactly mean by “pack it differently”. It could certainly strip some parts, or merge it with other file’s debug information (But I’m not sure why you’d do that on a fully linked binary).
I meant pack it differently for de-duplication.

Shankar Easwaran

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