Re: RFC: Add support for SHF_COMPRESSED

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:07 AM, H.J. Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Pedro Alves <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 03/19/2015 06:18 PM, Cary Coutant wrote:
>>>
>>> If you want the option to generate either format, how about something
>>> like "--compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-old|zlib-new]"? (Where
>>> "zlib" would generate the old for a while, then we'd switch it to the
>>> new after some time.
>>
>> Can we please find terms that describe that "old" and "new" mean and
>> use those instead?  "new" will eventually be old news too.
>> We did that mistake with "--enable-new-dtags", let's not repeat it.
>>
>> For example:
>>  --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi]
>>
>
> I will go with this one and  "zlib" will be the same as "zlib-gnu" for now.
>

I implemented it on users/hjl/compressed branch.  Any feedbacks?

Thanks.


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H.J.