RFR: 8237192: Generate stripped/public pdbs on Windows for jdk images

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Feb 13 12:24:41 UTC 2020


On 12/02/2020 22:16, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Hello Christoph,
>
> This patch certainly looks better to me, though I agree it's a bit 
> hackish to have to filter and rename the stripped.pdb files twice, 
> once for jmods and again for bundles. I think I'm ok with it for now 
> though. The future improvement I would like to make would be to create 
> two sets of jdk images, one that contains debug symbols and demos, 
> which we continue to use for testing, and another which only contains 
> exactly what we bundle up, including the correctly named top dir. The 
> latter would be created first and used as input for the former. I 
> think lots of things would be cleaner then, especially Bundles.gmk.
There may be a role for a jlink plugin here. On Linux, jlink 
--strip-native-debug-symbols runs the objdump tool and sub-options can 
be used to configure the debuginfo files to keep or exclude. In time I'm 
sure there will be other plugins like this.

-Alan.



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