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Re: RFC: Add support for SHF_COMPRESSED
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich at suse dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GDB <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 05:07:42 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC: Add support for SHF_COMPRESSED
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/19/2015 06:18 PM, Cary Coutant wrote:
>>
>> If you want the option to generate either format, how about something
>> like "--compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-old|zlib-new]"? (Where
>> "zlib" would generate the old for a while, then we'd switch it to the
>> new after some time.
>
> Can we please find terms that describe that "old" and "new" mean and
> use those instead? "new" will eventually be old news too.
> We did that mistake with "--enable-new-dtags", let's not repeat it.
>
> For example:
> --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi]
>
I will go with this one and "zlib" will be the same as "zlib-gnu" for now.
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H.J.