clayborg wrote:

> @clayborg The idea behind the feature is to get symbols for things that are 
> relevant to the user. Right now, that's only hooked up for images that appear 
> in the stack trace, but there are certainly other places this would be 
> useful. So yeah, I absolutely expect this to apply to other things in the 
> future as well.
> 
> We currently check the setting right before downloading, so in a generic 
> place that would be shared by all the other places that could trigger a 
> download. Therefore I think the "mode" should be generic. If we have 
> different triggers we could have separate settings to turn those things off 
> (e.g. only download symbols for images in the stack trace, not for address 
> lookups). So down the line it could look something like this:
> 
> ```
> (lldb) settings set symbols.auto-download background
> (lldb) settings set symbols.auto-download-stack-symbols true
> (lldb) settings set symbols.auto-download-address-lookup false
> ```
> 
> Let me know if you think it's critical to add 
> `symbols.auto-download-stack-symbols` now in addition to 
> `symbols.auto-download` (which I like better than `symbols.download`, thanks 
> for the suggestion!) .

Thanks for the update. Not critical to this patch, just wondering where we are 
going with this in the future and auto downloading of symbols.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/80890
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