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From: Alex C. <ac...@ca...> - 2012-11-27 17:42:44
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* Tom Hughes <to...@co...>: > On 27/11/12 00:57, Alex Chiang wrote: > > >(apologies if this is the wrong list, valgrind-developers seemed > >like it was just svn commits?) > > It's the right list, although we generally recommend handling > patches by opening a bug and attaching the patch, so that it doesn't > get forgotten about. Ok, I'll open a bug report. > >So I add a new command line parameter, --include-debugsyms-path, > >and it tells valgrind to search a user-supplied path *in > >addition* to the existing well-known search paths. > > I think it would be more flexible if valgrind just looked directly > in the directory specified by the switch, rather than adding > /usr/lib/debug to it This sentence makes sense to me... You're saying, "instead of prepending /usr/lib/debug, just search whereever --include-debugsyms-path= points to, directly". > you can still do that by adding that to the > switch value and other people get the benefit of just being able to > say "this is where my debug files are". But I'm a bit confused by this part. What does "still do that by adding that to the switch value" mean? thanks, /ac |