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Re: [build, driver] RFC: Support compressed debug sections
- From: Andi Kleen <andi at firstfloor dot org>
- To: Rainer Orth <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:44:47 -0700
- Subject: Re: [build, driver] RFC: Support compressed debug sections
- References: <yddvc7tmhx9 dot fsf at lokon dot CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>
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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