Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction,and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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dbx .ldynsym support –stack traces for stripped programs

Stack traces for stripped programs should get easier to read on Solaris.  Solaris Nevada added a new strip-proof symbol table that inherits part of the symbols that normally get stripped out by the strip command. Basically static functions. Static functions have always been the number one cause of unreadable stack traces in stripped programs,but [...]