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Re: Patch to handle compressed sections

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Craig Silverstein <csilvers at google dot com>
Cc: bauerman at br dot ibm dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:01:32 -0400
Subject: Re: Patch to handle compressed sections
References: <20080325230440.BF0623F25D6@localhost> <1206547779.29533.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080326173918.E6D063F25E8@localhost>

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:39:18AM -0700, Craig Silverstein wrote:
> We could compromise and still give the section a different name, like
> .debug_info.zlib, and then store the 'nnnn' part in a .note section or
> somewhere else, but I didn't see much benefit to that.

Or in the beginning of .debug_info.zlib?  (.zdebug_info?)

I've been looking at this and wondering if block compression makes
more sense; that would let an optimized consumer keep less than the
whole decompressed contents in memory.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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