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

Shankar Easwaran
2014-11-07T18:07:23Z

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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