Re: [PATCH] Makefile: support compressed debug info

[Sedat Dilek]

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:01 PM Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2020-05-12, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
...
> >I have a patch series that enables dwarf5 support in the kernel that
> >I'm working up to.  I wanted to send this first.  Both roughly reduce
> >the debug info size by 20% each, though I haven't measured them
> >together, yet.  Requires ToT binutils because there have been many
> >fixes from reports of mine recently.
>
> This will be awesome! I also heard that enabling DWARF v5 for our object
> files can easily make debug info size smaller by 20%. Glad that the
> kernel can benefit it as well:)

Please CC me on your pathcset - 20% smaller - I flip out.

- Sedat -