Re: GRUB2: Keeping debug symbols in an image

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

On 21.02.2012 00:16, Adrian Burns wrote:
> Hi, i had sent this out to help-grub@gnu.org but perhaps its best sent to devel
>
> Im looking for GRUB2's grub-mkimage to produce an efi file for target
> execution along with a matching elf file that has all the debug
> symbols included so that i can use a debugger to step through the
> GRUB2 code. So far i see that strip is used in
> grub/grub-core/genmod.sh.in to strip debug sections from the *.o files
> as the build generates the *.mod file (i used readelf to verify this
> after commenting out the strip command below) Then in grub-mkimage.c,
> the generate_image() function appears to make no attempt to preserve
> symbols. Is there a way to tell the build system to leave modules and
> images with full symbol table and debugging information?
We don't put any debug symbols to the result image. Use *.image and 
*.module. They are exact counterpart or *.img and *.mod other than being 
ELF even if *.img isn't and not having module identication sections.
> for the image....has anyone modified grub-mkimage.c to retain debug
> symbols in generated image?
>
> thanks,
> Adrian
>
>

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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko