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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
or COFF) may be an overkill for JIT compilers; especially if all the
debug info is used for is displaying a meaningful backtrace.  The
issue can be resolved by having the JIT writers decide on a debug info
format and also provide a reader that parses the debug info generated
by the JIT compiler.  This section gives a brief overview on writing
such a parser.  More specific details can be found in the source file
<samp>gdb/jit-reader.in</samp>, which is also installed as a header at
<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
not available on platforms which don&rsquo;t allow loading shared objects at
runtime).  Two <small>GDB</small> commands, <code>jit-reader-load</code> and
<code>jit-reader-unload</code> are provided, to be used to load and unload
the readers from a preconfigured directory.  Once loaded, the shared
object is used the parse the debug information emitted by the JIT
compiler.
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