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2014 Nov 07
5
[LLVMdev] Reimplementing Darwin's dsymutil as an lld helper
Hi,
[ I Cc'd lld people and debug info people. Apologies if I omitted some stakeholder. ]
As stated in the subject, I’d like to start working on an in-tree reimplementation of Darwin’s dsymutil utility. This is an initial step on the path to having lld handle the debug information itself.
For those who are not familiar with the debug flow on MacOS, dsymutil is a DWARF linker. Darwin’s
2014 Nov 07
3
[LLVMdev] Reimplementing Darwin's dsymutil as an lld helper
...inly 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 believe, this could be important for Fission as well, when other formats accomodate Fission.
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> Few OS'es like hp-ux used to run something called PXDB for this purpose.
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> <snip from ld man page : http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/hp-ux/man1/ld_pa.1.html <http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/hp-ux/man1/ld_pa.1.html>>
> The LD_PXDB environment variable defines the full execution path for
> the debug preprocessor pxdb. The default...