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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-25 02:54:52 +0000
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## Motivation
-ELF binaries get stamped with a unique, build-time generated hex string identifier called
-`build-id`, [which gets embedded as an ELF note called `.note.gnu.build-id`](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBuildId).
+ELF binaries get stamped with a unique, build-time generated hex string identifier called `build-id`,
+[which gets embedded as an ELF note called `.note.gnu.build-id`](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBuildId).
In most cases, this allows to associate a stripped binary with its debugging information.
It is used, for example, to dynamically fetch DWARF symbols from a debuginfo server, or
to query the local package manager and find out the package metadata or, again, the DWARF