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Re: RFC: Change in dwarf2dbg using sizeof_offset

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:58:44AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> Huh, but now that I look at it again, I see that this only changes
> assembler generated .debug_info and .debug_aranges, so there isn't
> really any point in making the change.  The windows target would need
> to handle compiler generated .debug_info anyway, which presumably
> wants to keep 32-bit offsets for size reasons as you point out.

Right.  OK, I see where we talked past each other then: using 64-bit
dwarf would have a very small per-comp-unit effect on the .debug_info
that gas generates - because they're small to begin with :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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