PATCH: Update NEWS/texinfo with compressed debug sections info
Eli Zaretskii
eliz@gnu.org
Sat Apr 19 14:19:00 GMT 2008
> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:56:50 -0700 (PDT)
> From: csilvers@google.com (Craig Silverstein)
>
> I took a stab (no pun intended) at documenting the
> compressed-debug-section patch, which I submitted earlier this
> evening.
Thanks.
> I'm not really sure what information is appropriate to
> include, or where to put it; any suggestions on this patch are
> appreciated.
Your decisions are all fine with me.
> +* gdb can now read compressed debug sections, as produced by GNU gold
Upper-case "GDB", please.
> +@value{GDBN} will use the zlib library, if available, to read
Please give "zlib" the @samp markup (i.e., @samp{zlib}), here and
elsewhere in the text you wrote.
Also, an index entry here would be a good idea. Something like:
@cindex compressed debug sections
> +compressed debug sections. Some linkers, such GNU gold, are capable
^^^^^
"such as"
Other than that, this can go in. Thanks!
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