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Re: [build, driver] RFC: Support compressed debug sections


Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:

> There's some interest inside Oracle to support compressed debug sections
> inside their toolchain, both on Solaris and Linux.  So far, there's the
> GNU style supported by gas, gld, gold, and gdb, which mangles section
> names (.debug_* -> .zdebug_*), but consultation with the Solaris linker
> engineers resulted in a different style, now (almost) approved for the
> ELF gABI.  The final proposal can be found here:
>
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/generic-abi/dBOS1H47Q64/Fm_Jh9vOlG8J

None of the messages explains why the new format is better than the
existing one. For GNU this seems to have zero value.

-Andi

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