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Re: RFC: Support linker --compress-debug-sections


On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 06:23:41AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > linker now supports compressed debug sections. I am
> > investigating --compress-debug-sections, On one hand,
> > linker applies relocations when writing to disk after file layout
> > is set.  On the other hand, compression, which has to be
> > done after all relocations are applied, will change file layout.
> >
> > I don't want to make massive changes to linker. I am planning
> > to put a mini objcopy in linker, which will compress debug
> > sections after the output has been written to disk.  Any
> > comments?
> 
> You're proposing to generate the full sized binary on disk, and then
> objcopy it to compress the debug sections?  Is that really a win?  Why
> not just add the option to objcopy and be done with it?

Or just let the user strip to separate file and compress the *.debug
file using whatever method he prefers.

	Jakub


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