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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2015-10-19 11:45:54 +0100
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2015-10-19 11:45:54 +0100
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Add a gas configure option to select the default behaviour for the generation of debug sections - compressed or uncompressed.
PR gas/19109 * configure.ac: Add option --enable-compressed-debug-sections. This sets the default behaviour for compressing debug sections. * as.c (flag_compress_debug): Define and initialise to COMPRESS_DEBUG_GABI_ZLIB if DEFAULT_COMPRESS_DEBUG is set. (show_usage): Indicate whether --no-compress-debug-sections or --compress-debug-sections is the default. * config/tc-i386.c (flag_compress_debug): Delete definition. * doc/as.texinfo (--nocompress-debug-sectionas): Update description. * NEWS: Announce the new feature. * config.in: Regenerate. * configure: Regenerate.
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+* Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections=[yes|no] to decide
+ whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default.
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* Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. Remove
assembler support for Argonaut RISC architectures.