On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Eric Botcazou wrote: > The previous 7 patches paved the way to enabling > -feliminate-unused-debug-types again by default in Ada. We measured a > 12.5% reduction in debug info size on one big application (and an even > larger one for another application), as well as a 0.5% reduction in > compilation time at -O0 -g.
Nice. I documented this for GCC 4.7 as follows. Gerald Index: changes.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.7/changes.html,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.4 changes.html --- changes.html 27 Mar 2011 18:57:39 -0000 1.4 +++ changes.html 2 Apr 2011 22:50:50 -0000 @@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ <h3>Ada</h3> + <ul> + <li>The command-line option <code>-feliminate-unused-debug-types</code> + has been removed. Its behavior is the default now, leading to + a reduction in debug info size of 12% and more for relevant + cases.</li> + </ul> + <h3>C family</h3> <h3>C++</h3>
