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Re: RFC: DWARF Extensions for Separate Debug Info Files ("Fission")
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
- Cc: dwarf-discuss at lists dot dwarfstd dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb at sourceware dot org, Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>, Sterling Augustine <saugustine at google dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:23:27 -0600
- Subject: Re: RFC: DWARF Extensions for Separate Debug Info Files ("Fission")
- References: <CAHACq4o43uGDEEKQRiYgnWWXSnDzRD1Z_-4z2HQ=bSaTpgyrjQ@mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> "Cary" == Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> writes:
Cary> At Google, we've found that the cost of linking applications with
Cary> debug info is much too high.
[...]
Cary> * .debug_macinfo - Macro information, unaffected by this design.
There is also the new .debug_macro section. This section refers to
.debug_str, so it will need some updates for your changes there.
Tom