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From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>
To: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com>
Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: -feliminate-dwarf2-dups unusable?
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15871.38424.617278.645505@localhost.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212172107.gBHL7ax07371@fillmore.constant.com>

Benjamin Kosnik writes:
 > 
 > I've been experimenting with -gdwarf-2 -feliminate-dwarf2-dups in libstdc++. 
 > This combination of flags reduces the shared binary by 400k.
 > 
 > -g -O2
 > -rwxrwxr-x    1 bkoz     bkoz         4.0M libstdc++.so.5.0.2*
 > 
 > -gdwarf-2 -feliminate-dwarf2-dups -O2
 > -rwxrwxr-x    1 bkoz     bkoz         3.6M libstdc++.so.5.0.2*
 > 
 > The build and testsuite complete without incident, but then when I try to
 > debug, I get:
 > 
 > (gdb) file a.out
 > Reading symbols from a.out...DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section
 > 
 > This is with mainline gdb, and the dcarlton branch, with top-of-tree
 > gcc, on x86/linux.
 > 
 > Any ideas?
 > 
 > -benjamin

I think we are not doing this yet. There was some initial work done by
Jim Blandy, but I am not sure where that is at right now.

Read the thread at:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2002-11/msg00040.html

Elena


  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-17 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-17 13:08 Benjamin Kosnik
2002-12-17 13:20 ` Elena Zannoni [this message]
2002-12-17 13:56   ` Benjamin Kosnik
2002-12-17 14:01     ` Elena Zannoni

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