[llvm] r270987 - Recommit 270977 - [llvm-mc] - Teach llvm-mc to generate zlib styled compression sections.

[David Blaikie via llvm-commits]

Ah, right, this is just for MC - and the behavior for Clang is unchanged at
the moment? (old command line supported and still doing the same (old)
compression format)

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 2:01 AM, George Rimar <grimar at accesssoftek.com>
wrote:

> >I take it the default is zlib? Should we keep the default as zlib-gnu
> given the lack of available support currently? (perhaps tweak it on any
> platforms that are >particularly forward - I imagine FreeBSD might have
> support for this sooner than the rest, for example (if it's moving to LLD
> and other LLVM tools that have/will >probably grow support for zlib-gnu
> compressed input sections sooner rather than later))
>
> No, it does not have defaults now. First version of this patch
> (D20676) allowed to specify just "-compress-debug-section​" (without=XXX)
> and that would enable compressing using default method. Commited version is
> not compartible with gas in part of command line and requires one of
> compression methods to be directly specified: none, zlib or zlib-gnu.​
>
> Best regards,
> George.​
>
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