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

[H.J. Lu]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> wrote:
>>> +@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.
>
> More specifically, if it was available when gas was configured and
> built, right? How should I phrase that? Or would the following be
> sufficient?
>
> "... If the zlib library is not available on the host machine, this
> option has no effect."
>

zlib is in gcc source tree. Can we include it in binutils?


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H.J.