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Re: [patch] Add --compress-debug-sections option to gas
- From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:36:06 -0700
- Subject: Re: [patch] Add --compress-debug-sections option to gas
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>> +@item --compress-debug-sections
>> +Compress DWARF debug sections using zlib. ?The debug sections are renamed
>> +to begin with @samp{.zdebug}, and the resulting object file may not be
>> +compatible with older linkers and object file utilities.
>
> I think that you should mention that this feature is only available if the
> zlib library is available on the host machine.
More specifically, if it was available when gas was configured and
built, right? How should I phrase that? Or would the following be
sufficient?
"... If the zlib library is not available on the host machine, this
option has no effect."
-cary