Default value for -with_native_debug_symbols on Windows useful?

[Erik Joelsson]

I agree that the zipped debug symbols are just annoying and should be 
removed.

/Erik


On 2017-11-08 22:32, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I could reframe the subject matter as "how do you internally at Oracle
> build the Windows JDK"?
>
> I had several discussions with people from Oracle about missing callstacks
> in hs-err files on Windows generated in tests which run at Oracle.
>
> I recently did JDK-8185712, which improves the Windows symbol decoder, so I
> feel somewhat responsible. However, I was never able to reproduce anything
> - here at SAP, we get nice callstacks and all works well.
>
> A simple explanation may be that you at Oracle either remove the debug info
> (pdb files) from the images before testing and/or build
> with -with_native_debug_symbols=zipped . The latter zips the pdb files,
> which in that form are useless. Which is it?
>
> For that matter, do you think -with_native_debug_symbols=zipped makes sense
> on Windows? Would it not make more sense to make the default
> -with_native_debug_symbols=external on Windows, to have pdb files ready for
> debugging and testing?
>
> Thanks, Thomas