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Re: Designs for better debug info in GCC
On 12/21/07, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 Dec 2007 16:02:38 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> > Like it or not, the large size of debug information is a serious issue
> > for many people.
>
> Link times are hurt by large size of debugging information. I have
> many many complaints from some users of the PS3 toolchain that link
> times are huge and from my investigation, found the size of the
> debugging info contributed to most (if not all) of the increased link
> times.
I forgot to mention the increase in debugging information about
prologue and eplogue (made by RTH) between 4.0.2 and 4.1.1 made the
link time increase a huge amount.
This just an example of where increased debugging information hurts
developmental time.
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski