Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:22:43 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: Reducing debuginfo size by removing unneeded includes
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Em Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:50:06PM +0100, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> > I found just it to be another reason for cleaning up the includes hell,
> > but I agree completely that the correct solution is for gcc to do the
> > right thing and eliminate unused debug types.
> 
> Yes, but I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't work either.
> I remember long ago trying an original patch which did something
> similar to -feliminate-dwarf2-* on a 3.3-hammer based gcc and
> it actually shrunk the objdir size considerably.

>From my limited set of tests I expect it to shrunk the objdir by a lot
:-)

- Arnaldo
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