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From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: kevin diggs <diggskevin38@gmail.com>
Cc: Steffen Dettmer <steffen.dettmer@googlemail.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: binutils prerequisites (recent zlib version - what else?)
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kevin diggs <diggskevin38@gmail.com> writes:

> And thanks. I was wondering what zlib was used for. The jar usage
> should have been obvious. Compressed debug stuff. Is that new? I tried
> searching in the 4.3.2 gcc manual for compress and zlib. The only
> thing that came up was -feliminate-dwarf2-dumps. What should I search
> for?

Compressing debug information is done in the binutils, not in gcc.  See
the --compress-debug-sections option to gas and gold.

Ian