[fpc-pascal] Re: -Xg flag and lineinfo/lnfodwrf support

[Peter Vreman]

> We have a compiled file with debug info (ex: using -gl flag) of 10Mb (about
> 8Mb are Debug).
>
> Currently you use:
>
> objcopy --only-keep-debug $EXE $DBG     (read from disk 10Mb from $EXE and
> write 8Mb for create $DBG)
> objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=$DBG $EXE     (read from disk 10Mb from $EXE and
> 8Mb from $DBG, for calculate CRC32, and wrote 10Mb of modifyed $EXE)
> strip --strip-unneeded $EXE     (read from disk $10Mb from $EXE and write to
> disk 2Mb of modified $EXE)
>
> TOTAL:
> Read from disk: 10+10+8+10 = 38 Mb
> Write to disk : 8+10+2 = 20 Mb
>
> --
>
> My new method is:
>
> mv $EXE $DBG     (read 0, write 0)
> strip --strip-unneeded $DBG -o $EXE     (read from disk 10Mb from $DBG and
> write 2Mb to create stripped $EXE)
> objcopy --only-keep-debug $DBG $DBG     (read from disk 10Mb from $DBG and
> write 8Mb of stripped $DBG)
> objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=$DBG $EXE     (read from disk 2Mb from $EXE and
> 8Mb from $DBG, for calculate CRC32, and wrote 2Mb of modifyed $EXE)
>
> TOTAL:
> Read from disk: 10+10+2+8 = 30 Mb
> Write to disk : 2+8+2 = 12 Mb
>
>
> As you can see using my new method is possible reduce the read access of
> about 20% and the write access of about the 40% (the great improvement).
>
>
> What do you think about? ;)

It is just changing the order "strip --strip-unneeded" and "objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink" not the
same?