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> non-goals (e.g., "make it easy to attach debuggers to apps replicated a zillion times in Borg") But wouldn't it still be nice to have a standardized way to

> non-goals (e.g., "make it easy to attach debuggers to apps replicated a zillion times in Borg") But wouldn't it still be nice to have a standardized way to analyze post-mortem dumps across languages?

nine_k 7y ago
Google's anointed production languages used to be five: C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Go. Not much to reasonably standardize across, especially if a standardized solution ends up with more compromises than a custom one.
- pcwalton 7y ago
  But DWARF uses less space than Go's native format. So inventing a custom "linetab" format seems like the compromise, not using DWARF.
  - nine_k 7y ago
    I suspect that the format is again copy-pasted from somewhere in Plan9, and existing Plan9 tools for it are ported, too.
tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
Insert standardization XKCD. It's been tried. And even so, you can still use the "standard" coredump tool to analyze a Go program's coredump with decent success.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  It’s not fun, usually.