On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 17:54 +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 27/02/2015 06:27, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 12:14 +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote: > >> On 07/07/2012 14:10, Jon TURNEY wrote: > >>> I was going to suggest the use of objcopy --compress-debug-sections, but > >>> it > >>> appears that does nothing for PE/COFF files at the moment [1] :-( > >>> > >>> [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14067 > >> > >> That bug has been fixed for a while, so how about the attached? > >> > >> This appears to reduce the disk space used by .dbg files to about 1/3 of > >> the size, so seems worthwhile. > > > > Have you tested that the resulting split debuginfo work properly with > > gdb? > > It's hardly a comprehensive test, but I did try this: [snip]
Fair enough, I have pulled in this patch for further testing. Thanks, Yaakov
