Patch to handle compressed sections

Pedro Alves pedro@codesourcery.com
Thu Apr 3 11:01:00 GMT 2008


A Thursday 03 April 2008 07:43:09, Craig Silverstein wrote:
> I'm sorry to do this, but hot on the heels of my last patch comes a
> new version.  While trying to implement this in gold, I realized that
> gold does not have endianness information handy at the time it's
> writing the compressed header.  

> So I've changed back to writing the 
> uncompressed size always in big-endian.  New patch below.
>

Out of curiosity, did you try running the whole GDB testsuite
outputting compressed debug info?  Perhaps with
"set GDBFLAGS=\"-Wl,--whatever-switch-is-necessary\"" in your
site.exp?

-- 
Pedro Alves



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