[cfe-dev] rfc: Adding a mode to -gline-tables-only to include parameter names, namespaces

[Reid Kleckner]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Nico Weber <thakis at chromium.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the motivation for -gline-tables-only was to make debug info much smaller,
> but still include enough to get usable stack frames [1]. We recently tried
> using it in Chromium and discovered that the stack frames aren't all that
> usable: Function parameters disappear, as do function namespaces.
>
> Are there any concerns about adding a mode to -gline-tables-only (or a
> second flag -gline-tables-full, or similar) that includes function
> parameter info and namespace info but still omits most debug info?
>
> (Background: We rely on dsym files to let our crash server symbolize crash
> dumps we get from the wild. dsymutil uses debug info, but it apparently
> crashes if debug info is > 4GB. We hit that recently. So we started using
> -gline-tables-only, but now all our stacks are close to unusable, even
> though the motivation for gline-tables-only was to still have usable
> stacks. We can't easily use symbol names as they get stripped very early in
> our pipeline, and changing that is apparently involved.)
>

Is there some way to change the pipeline to use the mangled name stored in
.symtab instead of the DW_AT_name in the DWARF? My understanding is that
the sanitizers already do this.
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