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Re: PATCH: Generate compressed DWARF debug info in .debug* sections

From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org, Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:52:28 +0200
Subject: Re: PATCH: Generate compressed DWARF debug info in .debug* sections
References: <20100720233856.GA31534@intel.com> <20100721143036.GA24894@intel.com> <20100721144859.GB4815@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>

On Jul 21, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> I think .zdebug_* was much better idea then this weird overloading of
> standard sections, it will confuse a lot of tools very badly.

Seconded.  And this was possible to use it on other formats (eg: PE/PE+).

Tristan.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: PATCH: Generate compressed DWARF debug info in .debug* sections
  - From: Cary Coutant

References:
- PATCH: Support SHF_GNU_COMPRESSED
  - From: H.J. Lu
- PATCH: Generate compressed DWARF debug info in .debug* sections
  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: PATCH: Generate compressed DWARF debug info in .debug* sections
  - From: Jakub Jelinek

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