Re: Object files increadibly big for MIPS target.

[Robert Lipe <robertl at dgii dot com>]

Gavin Romig-Koch wrote:
> Pal-Kristian Engstad writes:
>  > So the question is: How do you configure gcc and binutils not to
>  > generate this huge .mdebug section?
> 
> If it *really* isn't needed anymore, you can strip it out with
> objcopy (part of binutils).  

Or, since you're probably invoking a linker script to deal with the
embedded system's memory map and layout anyway just set that section to
be /*DISCARD*/ed from the image you care about.

I do this on my embedded MIPS code routinely. .mdebug is no more
offensive to me than the rest of the sections I toss out of the 
image.  :-)