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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 00/20] Compile-time stack validation
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* Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:

> BTW, since I'm planning on adding a CFI generation option to this tool, I wonder 
> if "stackvalidate" is a misnomer.  I can't think of anything better.  Any naming 
> ideas are welcome :-)

I'd suggest 'debuginfo' and a Git-alike set of subcommands:

   debuginfo help
   debuginfo check
   debuginfo check framepointers
   debuginfo check cfi

Such a command scheme keeps open various future commands, such as:

   debuginfo show
   debuginfo size
   debuginfo compress
   debuginfo strip

etc.

I also checked that there does not appear to be such a Linux tool with such a name 
at the moment.

Thanks,

	Ingo