Hi Tobias, I wanted to provide an alternative solution that may work for you (with or without support from debuginfod).
Support for reading source code directly from a code hosting service (such as GitHub) has been supported for years by Microsoft via SourceLink[1]. In 2018, a proposal[2] was submitted to the DWARF standard to include sourcelink information in the DWARF format. In 2022, a modification to the proposal[2] was accepted and is in the current working draft for DWARF6[3]. The proposal is to place the source URL for any file with an available URL in the DWARF information. There is still a lot of work to do. The DWARF6 specification needs to be published, compilers (or external tools) need to support adding the URLs into the DWARF info, and debuggers need to support downloading the source files. But it could provide a path for you (or debuginfod) to support reading directly from the upstream source repository. > Can you explain under what situations you think this would be helpful? I can only think about situations that involve closed source software. In my experience, companies shipping closed source software have restrictions about where source code can be placed. -Matt [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/sourcelink?view=msvc-170 [2]: https://dwarfstd.org/issues/181223.1.html [3]: https://snapshots.sourceware.org/dwarfstd/dwarf-spec/latest/dwarf6-20240227-2154.pdf
