From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:45:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: 	* gas/NEWS: Add note about --compress-debug-sections.
X-Git-Tag: sid-snapshot-20100801~166
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=700c40609061e3f805da243bcde613d6174a84f3;p=external%2Fbinutils.git

	* gas/NEWS: Add note about --compress-debug-sections.
	* gas/as.c (show_usage): Add --compress-debug-sections and
	--nocompress-debug-sections.
---

diff --git a/gas/NEWS b/gas/NEWS
index 1b7f9e9..db6b6d4 100644
--- a/gas/NEWS
+++ b/gas/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@
 
 * Add support for the Renesas RX processor.
 
+* New command line option, --compress-debug-sections, which requests
+  compression of DWARF debug information sections in the relocatable output
+  file.  Compressed debug sections are supported by readelf, objdump, and
+  gold, but not currently by Gnu ld.
+
 Changes in 2.20:
 
 * GNU/Linux targets now supports "gnu_unique_object" as a value in the .type
diff --git a/gas/as.c b/gas/as.c
index e494fa5..45acbaa 100644
--- a/gas/as.c
+++ b/gas/as.c
@@ -246,9 +246,16 @@ Options:\n\
   fprintf (stream, _("\
   --alternate             initially turn on alternate macro syntax\n"));
   fprintf (stream, _("\
+  --compress-debug-sections\n\
+                          compress DWARF debug sections using zlib\n"));
+  fprintf (stream, _("\
+  --nocompress-debug-sections\n\
+                          don't compress DWARF debug sections\n"));
+  fprintf (stream, _("\
   -D                      produce assembler debugging messages\n"));
   fprintf (stream, _("\
-  --debug-prefix-map OLD=NEW  Map OLD to NEW in debug information\n"));
+  --debug-prefix-map OLD=NEW\n\
+                          map OLD to NEW in debug information\n"));
   fprintf (stream, _("\
   --defsym SYM=VAL        define symbol SYM to given value\n"));
 #ifdef USE_EMULATIONS