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Re: PATCH: Generate compressed DWARF debug info in .debug* sections

From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
To: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:14:46 -0700
Subject: Re: PATCH: Generate compressed DWARF debug info in .debug* sections
References: <20100720233856.GA31534@intel.com> <20100721143036.GA24894@intel.com> <20100721144859.GB4815@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <E2172CF2-6224-4B34-86B0-381EC8AE9AB2@adacore.com>

>> I think .zdebug_* was much better idea then this weird overloading of
>> standard sections, it will confuse a lot of tools very badly.
>
> Seconded. ?And this was possible to use it on other formats (eg: PE/PE+).

Agreed. If we're not going to use a special section type (or flag,
although I would still prefer a type), we need to keep the ".zdebug"
names. As much as I dislike basing special behavior on section names,
I dislike peeking at the section contents even more.

-cary

References:
- PATCH: Support SHF_GNU_COMPRESSED
  - From: H.J. Lu
- PATCH: Generate compressed DWARF debug info in .debug* sections
  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: PATCH: Generate compressed DWARF debug info in .debug* sections
  - From: Jakub Jelinek
- Re: PATCH: Generate compressed DWARF debug info in .debug* sections
  - From: Tristan Gingold

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