linux-kernel - Re: Reducing debuginfo size by removing unneeded includes

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Message-ID: <20080218142243.GI4359@ghostprotocols.net>
Date:	Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:22:43 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: Reducing debuginfo size by removing unneeded includes

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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