Re: Reducing debuginfo size by removing unneeded includes

[Samuel Tardieu]

Andy> -feliminate-unused-debug-types -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols
Andy> -feliminate-dwarf2-dups

Sam> google did not turn up anything useful.  Do you have a poiter to
Sam> where these are described?

>From GCC (svn) man page:

   -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols
       Produce debugging information in stabs format (if that is supâ
       ported), for only symbols that are actually used.

   -feliminate-unused-debug-types
       Normally, when producing DWARF2 output, GCC will emit debugging
       information for all types declared in a compilation unit, regardâ
       less of whether or not they are actually used in that compilation
       unit.  Sometimes this is useful, such as if, in the debugger, you
       want to cast a value to a type that is not actually used in your
       program (but is declared).  More often, however, this results in a
       significant amount of wasted space.  With this option, GCC will
       avoid producing debug symbol output for types that are nowhere used
       in the source file being compiled.

   -feliminate-dwarf2-dups
       Compress DWARF2 debugging information by eliminating duplicated
       information about each symbol.  This option only makes sense when
       generating DWARF2 debugging information with -gdwarf-2.

 Sam
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