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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:35:37 -0600
From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 0/8] perf tools: Minimal build without libelf dependency
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On 6/22/12 9:30 AM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> And build-id's are not required for report (-B option for record).
>>
>> Also, the intent is for a small footprint binary for embedded systems.
>> On such a system I would expect binaries and libraries to be stripped,
>> so no point in running perf-archive.
>>
>
> But is there a chance that binaries on host still contains symbol (and
> debug) information even for those cases?
>

AFAIK embedded systems do not have the luxury of symbols; the goal is as 
small as possible. All debugging information is left on the build 
servers for off line analysis. That's certainly true for the product I 
work on.

David

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