[Dwarf-Discuss] Selectively strip CUs from .debug_info?

[Greg Clayton]

Not aware of any tools that can do this, but can't you just do this in your build?:

- link once with full .o files and save debug info off
- strip debug info from all third party .o files and link again. You still get all debug info for any .o files you didn't strip




> On Apr 9, 2020, at 2:50 PM, Robinson, Paul via Dwarf-Discuss <dwarf-discuss at lists.dwarfstd.org> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of a tool that can strip debug info for specified
> CUs from an executable?  I'm not aware of a way to do this, but
> there are many things I'm not aware of. ?
> 
> The use case is someone who wants to build the entire program
> (which includes a number of 3rd-party libraries) with debug info,
> so they'll have full symbols for crash dump analysis; but then
> strip the debug info for those libraries, in order to speed up
> debugger load time.  In this scenario, stripping the 3rd-party
> code before linking isn't going to satisfy the crash dump analysis
> requirement.
> 
> I've also brought up split DWARF, but I'm not sure it fits the need.
> 
> Thanks,
> --paulr
> 
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