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Re: RFC: Add support for SHF_COMPRESSED
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at suse dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GDB <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:01:44 +0000
- Subject: Re: RFC: Add support for SHF_COMPRESSED
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On 03/19/2015 06:18 PM, Cary Coutant wrote:
>
> If you want the option to generate either format, how about something
> like "--compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-old|zlib-new]"? (Where
> "zlib" would generate the old for a while, then we'd switch it to the
> new after some time.
Can we please find terms that describe that "old" and "new" mean and
use those instead? "new" will eventually be old news too.
We did that mistake with "--enable-new-dtags", let's not repeat it.
For example:
--compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-shf-compressed]
--compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-shf]
--compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi]
or even:
--compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-v1|zlib-v2]
Thanks,
Pedro Alves