[LLVMdev] RFC: Using zlib to decompress debug info sections.

[Eric Christopher]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Historically we've done the former. The latter would require Chris
>> wanting to do that.
>
> This case isn't so clearcut.  We like to include libraries in the source to make it easy to get up and running without having to install a ton of dependencies.  However, this has license implications and is generally annoying.
>
> Given that zlib is so widely available by default, and that the compiler can generate correct (albeit uncompressed) debug info, I think the best thing is to *not* include a copy in llvm.  Just detect and use it if we can find it, but otherwise generate uncompressed output.
>

Sounds good to me. Thanks Chris!

-eric