ELF Dissector in kdereview

[Dominik Haumann]

Hi Volker,

may I suggest that you also blog about this at some point in time? :-)
I know this is additional work (sorry), but it helps a lot visibility wise.
This blog can then be posted at reddit/r/linux et al...

Best regards
Dominik

On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 1:03 PM Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> 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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