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Re: Fwd: PATCH: Extend .zdebug section support to binutils and ld
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:29:26 +1030
- Subject: Re: Fwd: PATCH: Extend .zdebug section support to binutils and ld
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On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 05:59:35AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> I don't think they are all caused by my compress patch.
Perhaps not. I didn't check them all.
> Most of compress failures are due to linker script. I will
> submit a patch to update linker scripts.
A large number remain due to BFD_COMPRESS/BFD_DECOMPRESS. objdump -x
displays bfd->flags. I think that to fix this properly you should
store the new compress controls in two single-bit fields. (See end of
struct bfd.)
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM