https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86964
--- Comment #13 from Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail dot com> --- I have applied the patch on a gcc 7.4 PPC toolchain, and tested on a code base where the problem existed. The original ELF object size (of one example source file) in a pre-gcc-7 toolchain (gcc 4.9.2) was 219K. With an unpatched gcc 7 based toolchain, this had become 6.2M. With the patch applied, with the same command-line as before, there is no change, i.e. object size is still 6.2M. Only by adding the extra option -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols, the object size drops back to a reasonable 218K. My question is now: why is it needed to explicitly specify -feliminate-unused-debug-symbols? Is this an intended behavior change compared to e.g gcc 4.9?
