The Compact C Type Format in the GNU toolchain [LWN.net]

The Compact C Type Format in the GNU toolchain

Posted Aug 9, 2019 0:51 UTC (Fri) by himi (subscriber, #340)
In reply to: The Compact C Type Format in the GNU toolchain by mjw
Parent article: The Compact C Type Format in the GNU toolchain

Sorry, RPM uses elfutils eu-strip, which will not have special magic to treat .ctf sections specially.

This can be read as meaning "no version of eu-strip will ever have the special magic", rather than what I believe you meant: "any eu-strip you find in the world right now will not have the necessary special magic".

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The Compact C Type Format in the GNU toolchain

Posted Aug 9, 2019 11:21 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Oh. Yes, that is how I parsed it. I completely understand that *existing* strip tools will strip this out. This just means that if you upgrade binutils to a CTF-generating version, you'd have to upgrade elfutils to one that doesn't strip it out as well. Given that you're already stuck having to upgrade the compiler in synchrony too to get this stuff to work, adding one extra package doesn't sound like an intolerable administrative burden. (I hope.)