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Re: 3.2 code bloat from debug info


Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
                 2.96            2.98            3.3.2           3.3.2
		dwarf-2          stabs+         dwarf-2          stabs+
dclock.o        121684           131812         252108		278964	
main.o		133392		 143388		263548		294596
moc_dclock.o	158896		 170160		293108		330356

Looking at .o files is misleading. For stabs, we have link time optimizations to eliminate duplicate debug info. We do not yet have this for dwarf2. The result is that after linking the stabs debug info is likely to be significantly smaller than the dwarf2 debug info.
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Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com



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