Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> writes: > There's some interest inside Oracle to support compressed debug sections > inside their toolchain, both on Solaris and Linux. So far, there's the > GNU style supported by gas, gld, gold, and gdb, which mangles section > names (.debug_* -> .zdebug_*), but consultation with the Solaris linker > engineers resulted in a different style, now (almost) approved for the > ELF gABI. The final proposal can be found here: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/generic-abi/dBOS1H47Q64/Fm_Jh9vOlG8J
None of the messages explains why the new format is better than the existing one. For GNU this seems to have zero value. -Andi -- a...@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only
