[Lldb-commits] [lldb] r328990 - Added a BSD archive tool.

[Davide Italiano via lldb-commits]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:24 AM, Greg Clayton <clayborg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 2, 2018, at 10:27 AM, Davide Italiano <dccitaliano at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Now with the correct e-mail.
>> How is this different from llvm-objdump or llvm-readobj?
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> It was originally created for parsing .a files and getting the mod date as a hex number from the BSD object info. I needed a tool that could verify a debug map that used .a files. There are build scenarios where people are seeing LLDB not load .o files from .a files and they don't know why. This installs an LLDB command that can be used to verify all of the .o files in a debug map and reports if they are all ok, or if any are out date, missing, wrong in the .a file, missing from the .a file, etc. You can't use llvm-objdump or llvm-readobj for this task.
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I see, I would've built that on top of lib/Archive, but given you
wrote the code, I won't complain :)

> It can also extract individual .o files from a .a file.
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FWIW, A BSD archive can be opened with any archiver you want,
including, e.g. Winrar.

> It can also find a symbol in the __.SYMDEF to tell you which .a file contains a symbol by name.
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llvm-readobj/llvm-objdump don't implement this just because nobody
wanted to, but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible (if we really
wanted it).

Thanks,

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Davide