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Subject: Re: RFC: Add support for SHF_COMPRESSED
From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, 	Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>, GDB <gdb@sourceware.org>
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/19/2015 06:18 PM, Cary Coutant wrote:
>>
>> If you want the option to generate either format, how about something
>> like "--compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-old|zlib-new]"? (Where
>> "zlib" would generate the old for a while, then we'd switch it to the
>> new after some time.
>
> Can we please find terms that describe that "old" and "new" mean and
> use those instead?  "new" will eventually be old news too.
> We did that mistake with "--enable-new-dtags", let's not repeat it.
>
> For example:
>  --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi]
>

I will go with this one and  "zlib" will be the same as "zlib-gnu" for now.


-- 
H.J.