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Re: PATCH COMMITTED: Add --strip-debug-non-line

From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: "Caleb Howe" <cshowe at google dot com>
Cc: drow at false dot org, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:59:00 -0400
Subject: Re: PATCH COMMITTED: Add --strip-debug-non-line
References: <m3fxs26tmk.fsf@google.com> <20080528214323.GA9270@caradoc.them.org> <bc1e14e70805281536p2984efe4l99f17f3738468aad@mail.gmail.com>

"Caleb Howe" <cshowe@google.com> writes:

> [...]  My goal with this patch was to make smaller debug-able
> binaries, I hadn't considered the case of optimized binaries with
> debugging information included.  [...]

FWIW, debugging optimized binaries is something that will be
increasingly important and possible as improvements happen in dwarf
producers (gcc) and consumers (gdb, systemtap, ...).

- FChE

References:
- PATCH COMMITTED: Add --strip-debug-non-line
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor
- Re: PATCH COMMITTED: Add --strip-debug-non-line
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: PATCH COMMITTED: Add --strip-debug-non-line
  - From: Caleb Howe

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