From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29040 invoked by alias); 22 Dec 2007 00:09:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 29028 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Dec 2007 00:09:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (HELO rv-out-0910.google.com) (209.85.198.190) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:09:44 +0000 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g11so379446rvb.56 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.115.6 with SMTP id s6mr1133469rvm.4.1198282181850; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.189.18 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:09:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:16:00 -0000 From: "Andrew Pinski" To: "Ian Lance Taylor" Subject: Re: Designs for better debug info in GCC Cc: "Alexandre Oliva" , gcc@gcc.gnu.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00656.txt.bz2 On 12/21/07, Andrew Pinski wrote: > On 21 Dec 2007 16:02:38 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > Like it or not, the large size of debug information is a serious issue > > for many people. > > Link times are hurt by large size of debugging information. I have > many many complaints from some users of the PS3 toolchain that link > times are huge and from my investigation, found the size of the > debugging info contributed to most (if not all) of the increased link > times. I forgot to mention the increase in debugging information about prologue and eplogue (made by RTH) between 4.0.2 and 4.1.1 made the link time increase a huge amount. This just an example of where increased debugging information hurts developmental time. Thanks, Andrew Pinski