Re: PATCH: Extend .zdebug section support to binutils and ld

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz
<dan@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:09:33AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz
>> <dan@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:54:43AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> >> 2. .zdebug sections with relocations are handled properly.
>> >
>> > What is "properly"? ?If you ask me, compressing a section that you
>>
>> At least, binutils programs can understand them.
>
> That doesn't tell me anything. ?What is the right thing to do, now
> that you've made binutils do it? ?Do you have to uncompress the
> section and then apply relocations to it?
>
> If you do, there's no separate issue - don't check this in unless
> objects are marked in such a way that other tools will immediately
> reject them.
>

The object file is marked the SAME way as the current
assembler does. I didn't change anything in that regard.

-- 
H.J.