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From: "Andrew Fish" <afish@apple.com>
To: devel@edk2.groups.io, Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Cc: "pedroyossis@gmail.com" <pedroyossis@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Remove debug strings from OVMF.fd
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:35:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6F103736-341C-44C8-93B9-DEAA703857EA@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A89E2EF3DFEDB4C8BFDE51014F606A14E42A041@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>

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> On Apr 16, 2019, at 11:52 PM, Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> <my-edk2-folder>/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC5/X64/MdeModulePkg/Application/UiApp/UiApp/DEBUG/UiApp.dll is generated by GenFw tool. When GenFw tool convert ELF image to EFI image, it inserts the debug entry with the below string.
>   <>
Liming,

Is there a way to turn it off? Does it follow the -g flag passed to the compiler? Can you post process with GenFw --zero to remove it? 

Thanks,

Andrew Fish


> Thanks
> Liming
>  <>From: devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io> [mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io>] On Behalf Of Pedro Barbosa
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 11:46 PM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io <mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io>
> Subject: [edk2-devel] Remove debug strings from OVMF.fd
>
> Hi EDK2 developers,
>
> I'm trying to build OVMF without debug symbols but even building as RELEASE, I still can see some strings on the PE files, such as:
> <my-edk2-folder>/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_GCC5/X64/MdeModulePkg/Application/UiApp/UiApp/DEBUG/UiApp.dll
> and many others in the format */DEBUG/*.dll
>
> Is there a way to build without these strings?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- 
> []s
> 
> Pedro Yóssis Silva Barbosa
> Security Engineer, Google
> PhD in Computer Science, UFCG, Brazil
> sites.google.com/site/pedroysb <http://sites.google.com/site/pedroysb>
> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-17 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-16 15:46 Remove debug strings from OVMF.fd Pedro Barbosa
2019-04-16 16:39 ` [edk2-devel] " Laszlo Ersek
2019-04-16 16:52 ` Andrew Fish
2019-04-17  6:52 ` Liming Gao
2019-04-17 17:35   ` Andrew Fish [this message]
2019-04-18  0:14     ` Liming Gao

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