dgwynne

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1. 1.▲
   by dgwynne 3y ago

   At work we tunnel WoL payloads inside DHCP packets ( https://github.com/eait-itig/wolod ) so we can use the DHCP relays on the edge network to push the packets out for us. The bootp procotol has a handy flag that indicat
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   by dgwynne 9y ago

   I can't think of a reason not to ship DWARF except that it is big. Is there any other reason? CTF is obviously less capable than DWARF, but it is small enough to ship by default and in my experience it is Good Enough(tm) for most debug
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   by dgwynne 9y ago

   Solaris developed another solution, specifically CTF (Compressed Type Format). CTF stores data types and function signatures rather than full debug info, and is therefore much smaller than the DWARF information it is derived from. The entir
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   by dgwynne 9y ago

   This is also discussed in section 4 of Jeff Bonwick s 1994 paper "The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator".