Add support for tombstone symbolization to pbtombstone.
This patch teaches pbtombstone to use llvm-symbolizer to symbolize stack traces and augment the protobuf tombstones with the symbol information, before printing tombstones with the symbolized stack traces included. The main advantage of adding this information to the tombstone as opposed to having developers use the stack tool is that stack does not print all of the information in the original tombstone, which means that both reports may be required to understand a crash. Furthermore, stack traces printed by stack are not correlated with the stack traces in the tombstone, making the report harder to read, especially with GWP-ASan and MTE which may produce multiple stack traces for the crashing thread. Although we could teach stack to print more information, this would continue to be fragile because stack relies on parsing textual tombstones. Switching stack to read proto tombstones would be tantamount to a full rewrite and would require duplicating the C++ proto-to-text logic that we already have in Python. It seems better to reuse the C++ code for the proto-based symbolization tool. llvm-symbolizer will look up the symbol files by build ID using a .build-id directory following the standard here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RolandMcGrath/BuildID It will look for .build-id directories under paths specified with --debug-file-directory, which pbtombstone will pass through to llvm-symbolizer using its own --debug-file-directory flag. The intent is that tools for platform developers will pass the flag --debug-file-directory $ANDROID_PRODUCT_OUT/symbols to pbtombstone. Soong will start creating .build-id under symbols after a corresponding Soong CL lands. Bug: 328531087 Change-Id: Ia4676821cf980c69487cf11aefa2a02dc0c1626f
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