RFR: 8237192: Generate stripped/public pdbs on Windows for jdk images
Baesken, Matthias
matthias.baesken at sap.com
Fri Jan 17 08:44:29 UTC 2020
Hello, please review this change related to stripped/"public" pdb file generation on Windows .
Currently the JDK bundle on Windows does not contain pdb files (full pdb files are in a separate symbols bundle).
This leads currently to bad native stack traces e.g. when crashes occur.
One reason not to deliver the full pdb files might be the large size of these files.
However there exist also "public" or stripped pdb files on Windows, see :
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/pdbstripped-strip-private-symbols?view=vs-2017
Those are much smaller (often only 10-20% of the full pdb files) and they offer a good compromise (no "file:linenumber" info in the native stacks but at least the function name+hex-offset is visible)
to delivering full pdbs in the JDK.
Example sizes for the currently built full pdbs / stripped pdbs from VS2017 based 64bit build of jdk/jdk :
jvm.pdb : 73,1 MB / 9,46 MB
awt.pdb : 7,05 MB / 1,48 MB
The patch adds generation of stripped pdb files to the Windows build.
Additionally those files are put into the JDK bundle (while the symbols bundle still gets the full pdb files ) .
Bug/webrev :
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8237192
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8237192.0/
Thanks, Matthias
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