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At work we tunnel WoL payloads inside DHCP packets ( https://github.com/eait-itig/wolod ) so we can use the DHCP relays on the edge network to push the packets out for us. The boot…

I can't think of a reason not to ship DWARF except that it is big. Is there any other reason? CTF is obviously less capable than DWARF, but it is small enough to ship by default an…

Solaris developed another solution, specifically CTF (Compressed Type Format). CTF stores data types and function signatures rather than full debug info, and is therefore much smal…

This is also discussed in section 4 of Jeff Bonwick s 1994 paper "The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator".