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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>, David Taylor <dtaylor@emc.com>,        nick clifton <nickc@redhat.com>, Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,        gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>, gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:12:25 +0100, Doug Evans wrote:
> Not that I think it's a priori worth the effort to dig deeper, but for
> another datapoint, Redhat added an lza-compressed mini-dwarf-debug
> section.  I'm not sure what it supports (if anything beyond making
> backtraces better).

It can contain anything what separate debug info file may contain, incl.
.debug_* sections.  Access to those sections may be performance sub-optimal
(decompressing blocks per seek request), unaware if usably or unusably slow.


Jan