[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D40539: Allow using the object file name for debug symbol resolution

[Zachary Turner via lldb-commits]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 2:48 AM Pavel Labath via Phabricator via
lldb-commits <lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> labath added a comment.
>
> On 28 November 2017 at 06:12, Zachary Turner via lldb-commits <
> lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> > yaml2core would be an excellent idea for a tool.
>
> An (elf) core file is an elf file, with metadata in the elf program
> headers, so I think this would naturally fit into yaml2obj. Unfortunately,
> yaml2obj currently does not support program headers (but there is a TODO to
> add that).  If that TODO is fixed, we would have a yaml representation of
> both core files and elf executables (which we also can't do because they
> have program headers, and yaml2obj strips them).
>

yes but a windows core file (i.e. minidump) is not a coff file.  So I think
a tool like yaml2core would be useful, and for the ELF case it can simply
link against the same code that yaml2obj is using for elv.
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