ELF Dissector in kdereview

[Volker Krause]

Thanks again for the feedback, this has now been moved to extragear/sdk.

On Saturday, 28 September 2019 13:01:11 CET Volker Krause wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ELF Dissector has been moved to kdereview for the usual review process.
> 
> https://phabricator.kde.org/source/elf-dissector/
> 
> ELF Dissector is a static analysis tool for ELF libraries and executables,
> for doing things like inspecting forward and backward dependencies (on a
> library or symbol level), identifying load-time performance bottlenecks
> such as expensive static constructors or excessive relocations, or size
> profiling of ELF files.
> 
> ELF Dissector has been living in playground for more than 6 years because I
> was sloppy following the right process. Since it's in active use by a number
> of people, is actively maintained and remains relevant and useful I think
> it's time to finally rectify this :)
> 
> Regarding its final destination, extragear/sdk looks like the obvious
> candidate, as its such a niche tool that being part of the KDE Application
> bundle is probably hard to argue. Once KDE Applications and the "release
> service" are sufficiently decoupled, I'd of course be more than happy to
> have it covered by the automatic release process.
> 
> Regarding distribution, there is one annoying aspect, its dependency on
> semi- public binutils API for accessing the C++ symbol demangling AST. That
> works on conventional Linux distributions, but I failed to make it work as
> a Flatpak due to that.
> 
> Regarding portability, this currently only builds on ELF-based systems,
> although theoretically this could be useful on a Windows host used for
> embedded Linux development too. It's not impossible to make this work
> eventually I think, but it's probably quite some work.
> 
> Thanks,
> Volker

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