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| <h3 class="section">29.4 Custom Debug Info</h3> |
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| <p><a name="index-custom-JIT-debug-info-3152"></a><a name="index-JIT-debug-info-reader-3153"></a> |
| Generating debug information in platform-native file formats (like ELF |
| or COFF) may be an overkill for JIT compilers; especially if all the |
| debug info is used for is displaying a meaningful backtrace. The |
| issue can be resolved by having the JIT writers decide on a debug info |
| format and also provide a reader that parses the debug info generated |
| by the JIT compiler. This section gives a brief overview on writing |
| such a parser. More specific details can be found in the source file |
| <samp><span class="file">gdb/jit-reader.in</span></samp>, which is also installed as a header at |
| <samp><var>includedir</var><span class="file">/gdb/jit-reader.h</span></samp> for easy inclusion. |
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| <p>The reader is implemented as a shared object (so this functionality is |
| not available on platforms which don't allow loading shared objects at |
| runtime). Two <span class="sc">gdb</span> commands, <code>jit-reader-load</code> and |
| <code>jit-reader-unload</code> are provided, to be used to load and unload |
| the readers from a preconfigured directory. Once loaded, the shared |
| object is used the parse the debug information emitted by the JIT |
| compiler. |
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