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| author | Tim Dickson <dickson.tim@googlemail.com> | 2020-05-03 00:12:06 +0700 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2020-05-03 00:12:06 +0700 |
| commit | cfcf8eea6e49762606b00d5ea8ba0498955273f9 (patch) | |
| tree | e27829a407d4c857318b76b94f606862b4310e4e /development/dwz/README | |
| parent | f01308cfd711334bf7132abfa9b4143ae2041c90 (diff) | |
development/dwz: Added (dwarf compressor).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/development/dwz/README b/development/dwz/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..7a677ec267dab --- /dev/null +++ b/development/dwz/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +dwz is a dwarf compressor + +DWARF optimization and duplicate removal tool + +dwz is a program that attempts to optimize DWARF debugging +information contained in ELF shared libraries and ELF executables for +size, by replacing DWARF information representation with equivalent +smaller representation where possible and by reducing the amount of +duplication using techniques from DWARF standard appendix E - +creating DW_TAG_partial_unit compilation units (CUs) for duplicated +information and using DW_TAG_imported_unit to import it into each CU +that needs it. + +sourcecode licence is GPL2. see COPYING and COPYING.RUNTIME for more +details. |