aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/ld/NEWS
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2015-10-21 13:12:19 +0100
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2015-10-21 13:15:39 +0100
commit6c3bc0f82c625d425b09c01f96b64946abe4118e (patch)
tree7eb4b78f4c653b8034c6bd59fb8edfdfde301b54 /ld/NEWS
parent4cd98a1920446165eaf0a5d5e71f86133e92954d (diff)
downloadgdb-6c3bc0f82c625d425b09c01f96b64946abe4118e.zip
gdb-6c3bc0f82c625d425b09c01f96b64946abe4118e.tar.gz
gdb-6c3bc0f82c625d425b09c01f96b64946abe4118e.tar.bz2
Reset x86 Linux targets to not compressing debug sections by default. Enable compression of debug sections by default in the linker, if so configured.
PR gas/19109 . * configure.ac: Note the 'none' is an acceptable argument to --enable-compressed-debug-sections. * configure: Regenerate. gas * configure.ac: Restore --enable-compressed-debug-sections. Do not enable compressed debug sections by default for x86 Linux targets. * configure: Regenerate. ld * configure.ac: Add --enable-compressed-debug-sections. * configure: Regenerate. * config.in: Regenerate. * ld.texinfo: Document how to determine the default action for debug sections. * ldmain.c (main): If DEFAULT_FLAG_COMPRESS_DEBUG is defined then set the compress_debug field of the link_info structure to zlib-gabi. * lexsup.c (elf_static_list_options): Output the default setting for the --compress-debug-sections option. * NEWS: Mention the new configure option.
Diffstat (limited to 'ld/NEWS')
-rw-r--r--ld/NEWS3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ld/NEWS b/ld/NEWS
index e5dd1a5..89288d9 100644
--- a/ld/NEWS
+++ b/ld/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
-*- text -*-
+* Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,ld} to
+ decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default.
+
* Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures.
* Experimental support for linker garbage collection (--gc-sections)