RFC: Add support for SHF_COMPRESSED

Pedro Alves palves@redhat.com
Fri Mar 20 09:01:00 GMT 2015


On 03/19/2015 06:18 PM, Cary Coutant wrote:
> 
> If you want the option to generate either format, how about something
> like "--compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-old|zlib-new]"? (Where
> "zlib" would generate the old for a while, then we'd switch it to the
> new after some time.

Can we please find terms that describe that "old" and "new" mean and
use those instead?  "new" will eventually be old news too.
We did that mistake with "--enable-new-dtags", let's not repeat it.

For example:

 --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-shf-compressed]
 --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-shf]
 --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi]

or even:

 --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-v1|zlib-v2]

Thanks,
Pedro Alves



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