patch to emit debug into emitted classes

[Ranjit Mathew]

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
>>On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:56:27PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
>>
>>>Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>>So does it still help so much?
>>>
>>>I think so, but I'll have to re-compile the library.
>>>
>>>I did try a simple hello world:
>>>-rw-rw-r--  1 bothner bothner 56053 Mar 10 15:33 Foo1.s # before
>>>-rw-rw-r--  1 bothner bothner 12607 Mar 10 15:39 Foo2.s # after
>>>
>>>
>>>>Is the resulting debug information useful?
>>>
>>>Why not?  Of course it needs to be tested, but the mechanism works 
>>>for C++,
>>>and has been used by gcc/gdb for many years.

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> In principle, the Java type data in the debug info is redundant anyway 
> - gdb could, in theory, get all the info it needs from GCJ's metadata. 
> In fact, with the BC-ABI it needs to do this to be correct: the type 
> layouts can change at runtime, so the debug info is not only redundant 
> but wrong!
> 
> So, I don't think libraries lacking debugging info would be a 
> significant problem, and it looks like the size savings are awesome.
> 
> Per: I'll try and test this tomorrow.

This had looked like a promising patch.

Whatever happened to it?

Thanks,
Ranjit.

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