On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 at 21:22, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
wrote:
> Because Free Pascal doesn't support smartlinking+debug info on most
> platforms. The only exception is macOS, where it is actually supported.
Do you know why it's not supported? What are the barriers to supporting it?
It's qui
On 11/1/24 7:14 PM, Henry Vermaak via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 at 16:12, Henry Vermaak wrote:
On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 at 15:49, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal
wrote:
Another factor could be that debug info affects smartlinking. Or leaves symbols
for the linker in sections that are shared
On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 at 16:12, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 at 15:49, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal
> wrote:
> > Another factor could be that debug info affects smartlinking. Or leaves
> > symbols for the linker in sections that are shared with non-debug info.
>
> This seems to be the pro
On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 at 15:49, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal
wrote:
> Another factor could be that debug info affects smartlinking. Or leaves
> symbols for the linker in sections that are shared with non-debug info.
This seems to be the problem. I think adding -g turns off
smartlinking, which then blo
On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 at 15:16, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal
wrote:
> On 01/11/2024 15:59, Henry Vermaak via fpc-pascal wrote:
> I may not have all the factors, but O- O1 and O2 are not debug info, but
> optimization.
> So they generate different code, and that leads to different exe sizes.
I understa
On 01/11/2024 16:16, Martin Frb via fpc-pascal wrote:
On 01/11/2024 15:59, Henry Vermaak via fpc-pascal wrote:
When I add -Xg, the compiler writes the debug info into a separate
.dbg file and adds a .gnu_debuglink section so the debugger can find
the info. So far so good (and simpler than havin
On 01/11/2024 15:59, Henry Vermaak via fpc-pascal wrote:
When I add -Xg, the compiler writes the debug info into a separate
.dbg file and adds a .gnu_debuglink section so the debugger can find
the info. So far so good (and simpler than having the use objcopy).
The size of the binary is much lar
