Fwd: PATCH: Extend .zdebug section support to binutils and ld

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 22:16:00 GMT 2010


On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 05:59:35AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> I don't think they are all caused by my compress patch.
>
> Perhaps not.  I didn't check them all.
>
>> Most of compress failures are due to linker script. I will
>> submit a patch to update linker scripts.
>
> A large number remain due to BFD_COMPRESS/BFD_DECOMPRESS.  objdump -x
> displays bfd->flags.  I think that to fix this properly you should

Which tests fails because of BFD_COMPRESS/BFD_DECOMPRESS?

> store the new compress controls in two single-bit fields.  (See end of
> struct bfd.)
>

It is easier to use the flags field.  Otherwise, I need to update
more places.


-- 
H.J.



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