RE: [ros-dev] Proposal to change .sym files

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

Ge van Geldorp wrote:
> If symbolic info was present in file.nostrip.ext (i.e. it was compiled

with
> -g, which at present implies DBG := 1), then it will also be present in
> file.ext. So, the backtrace on e.g. BSODs should print the function
> name/source file/source line in addition to the address. Which means we
> won't have to use addr2line very often. If there was no symbolic info in
> file.nostrip.ext, addr2line wouldn't be of help anyway.

I like this idea.
Me, Alex and Steven were discussing something similar the other day in IRC.
I never expected things to move so fast :)

Ged

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