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denser dwarf macro information
- From: Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:20:22 +0100
- Subject: denser dwarf macro information
This is just for the archives. I was looking at some other dwarf
information that could be compressed. There was a proposal from Jim
Blandy a long time ago on denser dwarf macro information
(the .debug_macinfo sections).
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-04/msg00366.html
As far as I can see this idea was never implemented. I don't know why
though. Maybe a simpler approach that just gets the strings shared is
more effective? Same seems to be true for .debug_line, which also
doesn't reference strings through .debug_str. Is that a good or bad
idea?