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Re: [0/9] BFD sharing

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:19:42 -0600
Subject: Re: [0/9] BFD sharing
References: <87vch55la9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <50180C93.60908@redhat.com> <878vdys5va.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <CADPb22TRw0O3OvL559kAWkn0xsCemGYj0-48ti6mHmDh=zMpmg@mail.gmail.com>

>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

Doug> The effect on binaries built with all compressed debug sections
Doug> (.zdebug_*) will be that much greater.

Yeah.

On the whole, Pedro's idea is best, I think.

For systems not implementing this, we could map .zdebug sections
directly, and then lazily uncompress them.  That would lessen the
impact.

Tom

References:
- Re: [0/9] BFD sharing
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: [0/9] BFD sharing
  - From: Doug Evans

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