Re: abrt wishlist

2010-12-10 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil writes: Jan> GDB on client side would need something like readonly NFS-like Jan> service to load the .debug files byte-wise. And this NFS-like Jan> service network protocol must be signed by Fedora project like the Jan> current rpms are. Jan> Then the fast operatio

gdb index feature

2010-07-13 Thread Tom Tromey
We're going to be pushing in a new gdb feature that creates indices for the debuginfo. These indices are created by gdb, then merged into the executable or shared library using objcopy. This will be done as part of the find-debuginfo.sh script, run by RPM. The point of this change is that it gre

Re: sharutils license correction

2013-05-29 Thread Tom Tromey
Paul> "convert all info pages to proper man pages and obsolete: the info Paul> package." Man pages aren't really a replacement for info. Replacing info with HTML would be more reasonable, but would be a significant step backward in usability for Emacs users and perhaps others. This is solvable,

Re: Abrt (was Re: Most buggy packages)

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Tromey
> "David" == David Malcolm writes: David> In particular, for scripting languages, David> it's most useful to be able to extract the script-level backtrace from David> the C-level stack (i.e. "what was the Python code doing?") FWIW we're adding direct support for this to gdb. You'll be able t

Re: Abrt (was Re: Most buggy packages)

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Tromey
David> In particular, for scripting languages, David> it's most useful to be able to extract the script-level backtrace from David> the C-level stack (i.e. "what was the Python code doing?") Tom> FWIW we're adding direct support for this to gdb. Tom> You'll be able to supply backtrace filters with