This is the mail archive of the binutils@sourceware.org mailing list for the binutils project.

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format:	[Raw text]

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

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:44:28 +0100
Subject: Re: [patch] Add --compress-debug-sections option to gas
References: <AANLkTim2Li4CdH8itmx1q-8oxxuH0EOcFjzaSsQzmKzX@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinCjncd5O3bAJQTWJadDb7v7N7epTRvm3wwnFwd@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinRje8qT_yHWSL2wVdvGIJd8Xb165zimOSQnZQ5@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimgUYshoBrHuBovljevGsqIPDN3v9GkqfBWuVcW@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikrgY36JzcuN46UyCRBx_xfxfy3AfzhoMYjuh4b@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinodTCNHnyKbm7rt0GZwev_ia6PboxS4Ae0SfBc@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikwgcdbw_oN9TQtrcgpbGyc6jX1qYyxxVhKHdpe@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Cary,

I forgot about this until Nick reminded me. How's this?

OK - except for one small detail...

+@item --compress-debug-sections
+Compress DWARF debug sections using zlib.  The debug sections are renamed
+to begin with @samp{.zdebug}, and the resulting object file may not be
+compatible with older linkers and object file utilities.

I think that you should mention that this feature is only available if the zlib library is available on the host machine.

Cheers
  Nick

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [patch] Add --compress-debug-sections option to gas
  - From: Cary Coutant

References:
- Re: [patch] Add --compress-debug-sections option to gas
  - From: Cary Coutant

Index Nav:	[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav:	[Date Prev] [Date Next]	[Thread Prev] [Thread Next]