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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:36:19 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: objdump -Sl new-cygwin1.dll [WAS Re: wait_subproc failures in 
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:44:50AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >>Hey, Chris, how about putting up the output of `objdump -Sl
> >>new-cygwin1.dll' on the snapshots page?  Then it should be easy to
> >>dereference the pointer to the source or am I missing something like
> >>strip will move the pointers?
> >
> >Is this doable?
> 
> It's doable.  I actually plan on adding some kind of facility to cygcheck at
> some point.  Corinna and I discussed this almost a year ago.
> 
> My plan was to produce a bzipped file with symbol information that could be
> used to decode addresses in stackdumps and elsewhere.
> 

The output of objdump -Sl would work nicely for that.  It becomes easy
to find the point of failure with it as well as walk the addresses from
calling functions.  I think it's a must but can only be created by the
source of the snapshot before it's stripped.  I also think that it
should also be distributed with the release either separately or
included in the source tarball.

Earnie.

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