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Re: binutils prerequisites (recent zlib version - what else?)
kevin diggs <diggskevin38@gmail.com> writes:
> And thanks. I was wondering what zlib was used for. The jar usage
> should have been obvious. Compressed debug stuff. Is that new? I tried
> searching in the 4.3.2 gcc manual for compress and zlib. The only
> thing that came up was -feliminate-dwarf2-dumps. What should I search
> for?
Compressing debug information is done in the binutils, not in gcc. See
the --compress-debug-sections option to gas and gold.
Ian