diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'development/dwz/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | development/dwz/README | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/development/dwz/README b/development/dwz/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7a677ec267 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/dwz/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +dwz is a dwarf compressor + +DWARF optimization and duplicate removal tool + +dwz is a program that attempts to optimize DWARF debugging +information contained in ELF shared libraries and ELF executables for +size, by replacing DWARF information representation with equivalent +smaller representation where possible and by reducing the amount of +duplication using techniques from DWARF standard appendix E - +creating DW_TAG_partial_unit compilation units (CUs) for duplicated +information and using DW_TAG_imported_unit to import it into each CU +that needs it. + +sourcecode licence is GPL2. see COPYING and COPYING.RUNTIME for more +details. |