[PATCH] D24267: [ELF] - Added support of --gdb-index command line option.

[Rui Ueyama via llvm-commits]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

> emaste added a comment.
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> > Why do we need such output in the first place?
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> `-gsplit-dwarf` and `--gdb-index` support makes for an improved developer
> experience when building large applications with debug info (and using
> gdb). It keeps each object file's debug info in a separate .dwo file, and
> debug info is largely excluded from linking.
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> Details at https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/DebugFission.
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Yup. That should be described in the file comment in this patch.



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> https://reviews.llvm.org/D24267
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