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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: stabs vs. dwarf-2 for C programs
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010412221742.A22383@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5mwv8pzgvt.fsf@jtc.redback.com>

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:13:26PM -0700, J.T. Conklin wrote:
>In general, are there any advantages for using dwarf-2 over 
>stabs debugging symbols for C (not C++) programs?
>
>I did a quick test of rebuilding our system with dwarf-2 debug
>symbols, and found that the image file grew from 35MB to 167MB 
>and link times nearly quadrupled, so dwarf-2 isn't looking so 
>good so far.  If I had to guess, it looks like duplicate debug
>info (from headers, etc.) isn't being eliminated as is done 
>for stabs.

Daniel Berlin contributed some duplicate debug elimination code to gcc
for Dwarf-2.  It should be in the gcc 3.0 branch, if you are
adventurous.

There is an option to turn it on "-feliminate-dwarf2-dups".  I don't
know if this is the default or not.

cgf


  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-12 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-12 19:13 J.T. Conklin
2001-04-12 19:17 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2001-04-12 19:31   ` J.T. Conklin
2001-04-12 19:59     ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-13  7:13       ` John Haller
2001-04-13  8:09         ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-13 16:18           ` Ian Lance Taylor
2001-04-13 18:39             ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-13 20:22               ` Ian Lance Taylor
2001-04-13 22:01                 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-13 22:19                   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2001-04-13 22:37                     ` DJ Delorie
2001-04-13 23:31                     ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-13 23:47                       ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-13 23:51                       ` Ian Lance Taylor
2001-04-13 22:56                   ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-13 23:40                     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2001-04-13 23:55                   ` Todd Whitesel
2001-04-12 19:55 ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-12 23:37   ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-04-13  8:13     ` Daniel Berlin
2001-04-12 22:00 ` Geoff Keating
2001-04-12 22:37   ` Daniel Berlin

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