Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb

Jan Kratochvil
2013-01-14T19:49:53Z

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:12:25 +0100, Doug Evans wrote:
> Not that I think it's a priori worth the effort to dig deeper, but for
> another datapoint, Redhat added an lza-compressed mini-dwarf-debug
> section. I'm not sure what it supports (if anything beyond making
> backtraces better).

It can contain anything what separate debug info file may contain, incl.
.debug_* sections. Access to those sections may be performance sub-optimal
(decompressing blocks per seek request), unaware if usably or unusably slow.

Jan