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Re: [patch] Add --compress-debug-sections option to gas


> I think it should be mentioned on gas/NEWS. Also you should add
> the new options to "as --help".

How does this look?

-cary


        * gas/NEWS: Add note about --compress-debug-sections.
        * gas/as.c (show_usage): Add --compress-debug-sections and
        --nocompress-debug-sections.


diff --git a/gas/NEWS b/gas/NEWS
index 1b7f9e9..db6b6d4 100644
--- a/gas/NEWS
+++ b/gas/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@

 * Add support for the Renesas RX processor.

+* New command line option, --compress-debug-sections, which requests
+  compression of DWARF debug information sections in the relocatable output
+  file.  Compressed debug sections are supported by readelf, objdump, and
+  gold, but not currently by Gnu ld.
+
 Changes in 2.20:

 * GNU/Linux targets now supports "gnu_unique_object" as a value in the .type
diff --git a/gas/as.c b/gas/as.c
index e494fa5..2457e8c 100644
--- a/gas/as.c
+++ b/gas/as.c
@@ -246,6 +246,10 @@ Options:\n\
   fprintf (stream, _("\
   --alternate             initially turn on alternate macro syntax\n"));
   fprintf (stream, _("\
+  --compress-debug-sections  compress DWARF debug sections using zlib\n"));
+  fprintf (stream, _("\
+  --nocompress-debug-sections  don't compress DWARF debug sections\n"));
+  fprintf (stream, _("\
   -D                      produce assembler debugging messages\n"));
   fprintf (stream, _("\
   --debug-prefix-map OLD=NEW  Map OLD to NEW in debug information\n"));


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