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authorJon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>2015-03-18 15:47:13 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2015-03-18 15:47:13 +0000
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Fix debug section compression so that it is only performed if it would make the section smaller.
PR binutils/18087 gas * doc/as.texinfo: Note that when gas compresses debug sections the compression is only performed if it makes the section smaller. * write.c (compress_debug): Do not compress a debug section if doing so would make it larger. tests * gas/i386/dw2-compress-1.d: Do not expect the .debug_abbrev or .debug_info sections to be compressed. binu * doc/binutils.texi: Note that when objcopy compresses debug sections the compression is only performed if it makes the section smaller. bfd * coffgen.c (make_a_section_from_file): Only prepend a z to a debug section's name if the section was actually compressed. * elf.c (_bfd_elf_make_section_from_shdr): Likewise. * compress.c (bfd_init_section_compress_status): Do not compress the section if doing so would make it bigger. In such cases leave the section alone and return COMPRESS_SECTION_NONE.
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@item --compress-debug-sections
Compress DWARF debug sections using zlib. The debug sections are renamed
to begin with @samp{.zdebug}, and the resulting object file may not be
-compatible with older linkers and object file utilities.
+compatible with older linkers and object file utilities. Note if compression
+would make a given section @emph{larger} then it is not compressed or renamed.
@item --nocompress-debug-sections
Do not compress DWARF debug sections. This is the default.