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<h3 class="section">29.4 Custom Debug Info</h3>
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<p>Generating debug information in platform-native file formats (like ELF
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or COFF) may be an overkill for JIT compilers; especially if all the
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debug info is used for is displaying a meaningful backtrace. The
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issue can be resolved by having the JIT writers decide on a debug info
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format and also provide a reader that parses the debug info generated
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by the JIT compiler. This section gives a brief overview on writing
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such a parser. More specific details can be found in the source file
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<samp>gdb/jit-reader.in</samp>, which is also installed as a header at
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<samp><var>includedir</var>/gdb/jit-reader.h</samp> for easy inclusion.
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<p>The reader is implemented as a shared object (so this functionality is
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not available on platforms which don’t allow loading shared objects at
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runtime). Two <small>GDB</small> commands, <code>jit-reader-load</code> and
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<code>jit-reader-unload</code> are provided, to be used to load and unload
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the readers from a preconfigured directory. Once loaded, the shared
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object is used the parse the debug information emitted by the JIT
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