Re: Reducing debuginfo size by removing unneeded includes

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Feb 18 2008 - 09:14:24 EST


> 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.

-Andi
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