Re: RFC: Add support for SHF_COMPRESSED
"Jan Beulich" <[email protected]>
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>>> On 13.03.15 at 17:13, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> On 13.03.15 at 16:31, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I am working on SHF_COMPRESSED support: >>> >>> http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.sheader.html >>> >>> We already have .zdebug* sections, which aren't compatible >>> with SHF_COMPRESSED scheme due to missing compression >>> header. What section names should we use for SHF_COMPRESSED >>> debug sections. Using .debug* or .zdebug* will break existing tools. >>> I am thinking .zlibdebug* or ..Zdebug*. Any suggestions? >> >> Why would they need to have different names anyway? They're >> distinguishable by the flag. > > Won't the exiting tools, like GDB, choke on compressed .debug* sections? If they're well behaved, they shouldn't (they should just ignore them). Jan