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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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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