[fpc-devel] A Compiled file size solution from the GBD mailing-list

[Peter Vreman]

At 21:32 16-1-2008, you wrote:


>On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Peter Vreman wrote:
>
> > At 13:17 16-1-2008, you wrote:
> > >Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > > >from _EXECUTABLE_ file FILE, iow you still need the unstripped exe.
> > >
> > >Perhaps it doesn't need the .text, .data, .bss etc sections though.
> >
> > I also posted this on Lazarus mailing list already.
> >
> > Below are the 2 commands to make it working. In the first command only the
> > debug information is kept in lazarus.dbg. And the second is the 
> already know
> > way to strip the debug information.
> >
>[cut]
> >
> > And as a final note: Yes, it is possible to fix fpc to write such 
> a .dbg file
> > also.
>
>Didn't we receive a patch from the Morfik people which did exactly this ?
>I remember that we had an email-conversation about it, and I also
>seem to remember applying a patch ?

There was already a quick hack added with the -Xg option to create a 
separate .dbg file. But the contents of this file is not good for 
gdb. We need to rewrite this part to be compatible with gdb and other 
gnu tools.


Peter