Re: [PATCH] x86_64 vDSO: install unstripped copies on disk

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Jul 22 2007 - 05:25:36 EST


On Sunday 22 July 2007 05:13:12 Roland McGrath wrote:
> This keeps an unstripped copy of the vDSO images built before they are
> stripped and embedded in the kernel. The unstripped copies get installed
> in $(MODLIB)/vdso/ by "make install". These files can be useful when they
> contain source-level debugging information.

Hmm, how would the debugger find them? There won't be any reference
from the vdso to them.

If you do that then you should probably add a debuglink reference first.

-Andi
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