On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 at 13:04, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > That said, I think they are problematic too, in that I don't think
> > they are universally available, so if you want to trace some
> > executable without build ids - and there are good reasons to do that -
> > you might hate being limited that way.
>
> Right, but these days gdb (and other traditional tools) supports it and
> downloads it (perf should do it with a one-time sticky question too,
> does it already in some cases, unconditionally, that should be fixed as
> well), most distros have it:
So I'm literally thinking one very valid case is debugging some
third-party binary with tracing.
End result: the whole "most distros have it" is just not relevant to
that situation.
Linus
