[PATCH] Minor PPC bits

[Daniel Berlin]

Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:

> On Wednesday 13 December 2000 20:53, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > > From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
> > > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:44:19 +0100
> > >
> > > Should I enable the pack-test-* testcases for powerpc*-*-eabi* too, so
> > > the regression tester will catch them?
> >
> > Please do.
> 
> Done.
> 
> > > > > BTW, can you commit my pending .file/.loc patch to binutils?
> > >
> > > Thanks, defaulting to DWARF2_DEBUG seems to work quite well and similar
> > > to the other platforms BTW.
> >
> > How large is the resulting debugging info in .o files and executables?
> > If it's not significantly larger, I think we should switch to dwarf2
> > by default.
> 
> [root@enzo:/cvsx/linuxppc_2_3]# dir /cvsroot/v*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 fsirl    fsirl    33619307 Thu Dec 07 19:05:20 2000 
> /cvsroot/vmlinux-dwarf2
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 fsirl    fsirl     9001968 Wed Dec 13 22:24:07 2000 
> /cvsroot/vmlinux-stabs
> 
> Quite significant I would say :-).

Try again with -feliminate-dwarf2-dups.

Should be about 18% bigger than stabs.

> 
> Franz.