X-Original-To: geoffk@foam.wonderslug.com
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:05:42 -0600 (CST)
From: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>
Geoff Keating writes:
I think we'll want to be able to do it these ways:
- One way where the minimal debugging information is emitted so that
when put together, the whole program has complete debugging
information; and
- Another way where complete information is emitted for a single
file.
I'm not sure why you'd want something between these two extremes.
Why not always do #2, and have the linker eliminate the duplicate
information?
Because it makes .o files large, and that makes the linker slow
because it has to process the huge collection of .o files.