[Dwarf-Discuss] Vendor extensions in .debug_macinfo

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 08:48:31AM -0700, David Anderson wrote:
> On 07/13/2011 11:20 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> There were two competing proposals, both allowing some space savings,
> and neither I nor the other proposer explained our respective
> concepts very well.
> So the committee adopted something simple that would work.   Yes, it takes
> far too much space.
> 
> M. Eager's comments are right on, but in addition, I think it is clear we
> would expect some real numbers (not guessed numbers)
> showing the space advantage for real applications of any
> proposed revision.  I guess this is obvious :-)

The real numbers were given in the mail I've posted URL to,
in particular e.g. on x86_64-linux cc1plus:
old:
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 jakub jakub 484483231 Jul 13 12:43 cc1plus
  [12] .text             PROGBITS        00000000004886e0 0886e0 df7938 00  AX  0   0 16
  [26] .debug_aranges    PROGBITS        0000000000000000 1239215 00be90 00      0   0  1
  [27] .debug_info       PROGBITS        0000000000000000 12450a5 276ae23 00      0   0  1
  [28] .debug_abbrev     PROGBITS        0000000000000000 39afec8 08bb08 00      0   0  1
  [29] .debug_line       PROGBITS        0000000000000000 3a3b9d0 47be2d 00      0   0  1
  [30] .debug_str        PROGBITS        0000000000000000 3eb77fd 0faa87 01  MS  0   0  1
  [31] .debug_loc        PROGBITS        0000000000000000 3fb2284 2e56f19 00      0   0  1
  [32] .debug_macinfo    PROGBITS        0000000000000000 6e0919d 154a7e83 00      0   0  1
  [33] .debug_ranges     PROGBITS        0000000000000000 1c2b1020 9fed80 00      0   0  1
new:
-rwxrwxr-x. 1 jakub jakub 130126820 Jul 13 18:05 cc1plus
  [12] .text             PROGBITS        00000000004886e0 0886e0 df8538 00  AX  0   0 16
  [26] .debug_aranges    PROGBITS        0000000000000000 1239fb5 00be90 00      0   0  1
  [27] .debug_info       PROGBITS        0000000000000000 1245e45 276c42e 00      0   0  1
  [28] .debug_abbrev     PROGBITS        0000000000000000 39b2273 08bb0e 00      0   0  1
  [29] .debug_line       PROGBITS        0000000000000000 3a3dd81 491054 00      0   0  1
  [30] .debug_str        PROGBITS        0000000000000000 3ecedd5 2865fe 01  MS  0   0  1
  [31] .debug_loc        PROGBITS        0000000000000000 41553d3 2e5a185 00      0   0  1
  [32] .debug_macinfo    PROGBITS        0000000000000000 6faf558 110100 00      0   0  1
  [33] .debug_ranges     PROGBITS        0000000000000000 70bf658 9ffaf0 00      0   0  1
The binaries aren't 100% the same as can be seen on the .text difference,
the difference in between them is the patch that implements this change,
noise in the overall numbers though.

	Jakub