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authorCary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>2010-07-15 17:45:17 +0000
committerCary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>2010-07-15 17:45:17 +0000
commite7dd595ebafa63e82c677aad40d3698e8bc2b77f (patch)
tree2cf617ab33e2b4607b2741175b75c102e2a205bb /gas
parent7960f65f9c6587cd75b0fcf52d87f2cf667180a5 (diff)
downloadbinutils-redhat-e7dd595ebafa63e82c677aad40d3698e8bc2b77f.tar.gz
* gas/NEWS: Add note about --compress-debug-sections.
* gas/as.c (show_usage): Add --compress-debug-sections and --nocompress-debug-sections.
Diffstat (limited to 'gas')
-rw-r--r--gas/NEWS5
-rw-r--r--gas/as.c9
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gas/NEWS b/gas/NEWS
index 1b7f9e9b4c..db6b6d4d05 100644
--- a/gas/NEWS
+++ b/gas/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
* Add support for the Renesas RX processor.
+* New command line option, --compress-debug-sections, which requests
+ compression of DWARF debug information sections in the relocatable output
+ file. Compressed debug sections are supported by readelf, objdump, and
+ gold, but not currently by Gnu ld.
+
Changes in 2.20:
* GNU/Linux targets now supports "gnu_unique_object" as a value in the .type
diff --git a/gas/as.c b/gas/as.c
index e494fa5fe1..45acbaa456 100644
--- a/gas/as.c
+++ b/gas/as.c
@@ -246,9 +246,16 @@ Options:\n\
fprintf (stream, _("\
--alternate initially turn on alternate macro syntax\n"));
fprintf (stream, _("\
+ --compress-debug-sections\n\
+ compress DWARF debug sections using zlib\n"));
+ fprintf (stream, _("\
+ --nocompress-debug-sections\n\
+ don't compress DWARF debug sections\n"));
+ fprintf (stream, _("\
-D produce assembler debugging messages\n"));
fprintf (stream, _("\
- --debug-prefix-map OLD=NEW Map OLD to NEW in debug information\n"));
+ --debug-prefix-map OLD=NEW\n\
+ map OLD to NEW in debug information\n"));
fprintf (stream, _("\
--defsym SYM=VAL define symbol SYM to given value\n"));
#ifdef USE_EMULATIONS