On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 17:09 +0200, Pekka Pietikainen wrote: > Err... would it be possible to get some solution for the "Help! > I just want to run oprofile and systemtap" scenario? > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 459625793 Mar 02 09:20 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.15-1.2008_FC5.i686.rpm > > is just not fun. Especially when a (uncompressed) 40MB vmlinux is all I > usually want from there. What the world really needs is a tool that'll remove redundant DWARF data[1]. Ideally, such a tool could remove redundant data within an object, or between multiple objects (by specifying that one object -- libc.so.6, vmlinux -- is the authoritative DWARF source and removing copies from everything else). Discarding data that isn't actually used would be good, too, but gcc does that right now and manages to screw it up (re: enums), so you'd have to be extra careful. [1] If a.c and b.c both include z.h, a.o and b.o will both have DWARF info for z.h, and if you link a.o and b.o together, you'll get two copies of that DWARF data in the resulting object. Now consider that sched.h is a) big and b) included by most everything in the kernel and that there are other headers just like it... -- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
